Define Once. Enforce Everywhere.

Unified Policy As Code

Translate security, compliance, and cost control policies into code  and easily automate and scale them across digital environments from a single platform, including cloud, on-prem, Kubernetes, SaaS, endpoints, and the SDLC. - Get up and running fast with Mondoo’s intuitive language, out-of-the-box policies, and AI policy generator.

Scale policies across complex infrastructures

Mondoo Policy as Code allows security and platform engineers to express, scale and automate policy requirements in code and scale them across the entire environment. By adopting a declarative approach, organizations can shift from reactive security to proactive control, reducing misconfigurations and enhancing operational efficiency.

Centralize security policies

Create policies to scan your entire IT infrastructure and SDLC for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and exposed secrets.

Declarative compliance

Define desired and compliant system states using Mondoo’s 300+ out-of-the-box security policies, compliance frameworks, and CIS benchmarks.

Improve cost control

Get immediate ROI by enforcing right-sized cloud infrastructure, auto-scaling and pay-as-you-go efficiency, and automatically cleaning up idle resources.

How does Mondoo Policy as Code work?

Mondoo offers an intuitive approach centered on YAML policies and lightweight Mondoo Query Language (MQL) scripts. These are purpose-built for security teams, making it the easiest policy as code solution to use and understand.
MQL can be used to create policies in cnspec, Mondoo’s open source, cloud-native tool that assesses the security, compliance, and cost efficiency of your entire infrastructure - allowing you to define policies once, and enforce everywhere. All coded policies can be viewed in the Mondoo UI, making them accessible for security and compliance teams.

Mondoo policy examples:

All cloud run deployments should scale to zero
Cloud resources should be encrypted at rest and in transit
Memstore cache should never be more than 50GB
All GitHub repositories must have security testing enabled
No container image should run with critical vulnerabilities
Only secure protocols are used in all PCI-DSS environments
All certificates should be signed by a valid authority

Why Mondoo Policy as Code?

Easy to use

Mondoo's MQL was designed from the ground up to be accessible to security teams. Mondoo includes a rich library of common policies, industry best-practices and compliance frameworks that can be applied out-of-the-box, or customized. Mondoo also includes a pre-trained AI policy generator that can be used to create new policies or update existing ones.

Risk prioritization

Leverage Mondoo’s customizable risk scoring to create granular and prioritized policies. Mondoo’s risk scoring engine considers many risk factors including exposure, exploitability, compensating controls, and business impact.

Centralized exceptions

Mondoo’s exceptions allow teams to plan for outliers while still benefiting from a fully automated process. By centralizing exceptions, misalignment and duplicated efforts are avoided.

Testing and version control

Validate policies before deployment. Track and manage policy updates through Git or similar tools, facilitating collaboration and error recovery.

Years of expertise

With deep roots in the evolution of this approach, Mondoo has worked with some of the world’s largest enterprises to implement Policy as Code at scale, significantly enhancing their security and operations.

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Customer
success story

After facing repeated security misconfigurations dangerously exposing critical assets, a Fortune 500 company automated security guardrails with Mondoo’s Policy as Code - reducing misconfigurations by 90% and improving compliance readiness. Read more in our Policy as Code white paper.

Policy as Code FAQs

  • What is Policy as Code?

    Policy as Code (PaC) is the practice of defining, managing, and enforcing policies using code, allowing them to be version-controlled, tested, and automated like software. Instead of manually having to configure, test, and enforce rules, PaC allows you to express them in a machine-readable format, reducing human error and allowing for easy scaling.

  • What’s the difference between PaC and IaC?

    Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automates the provisioning and management of IT infrastructure using code, ensuring consistency and scalability. Policy as Code (PaC), on the other hand, defines and enforces rules for security, compliance, and governance in a codified manner.

  • What are the benefits of Policy as Code?

    Policy as Code (PaC) improves security, compliance, and efficiency by automating policy enforcement and reducing human error. It ensures consistency across environments, integrates seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines, and enables real-time compliance checks. PaC also enhances collaboration between security, development, and operations teams by making policies transparent and enforceable as part of the software delivery process.

  • Why Mondoo Policy as Code?

    Unlike most other PaC solutions that were mainly created for developers, Mondoo's MQL was designed from the ground up to be accessible to security teams. Mondoo includes a rich library of common policies, industry best-practices and compliance frameworks that can be applied out-of-the-box, or customized according to business needs. Mondoo also delivers a pre-trained AI policy generator that can be used to create new policies or update existing ones.

  • Who benefits from Policy as Code?

    Policy as Code (PaC) benefits security teams, developers, and operations teams by automating compliance and security enforcement, reducing manual errors, and ensuring consistency across environments. DevOps and platform engineers gain from streamlined workflows, as policies are integrated directly into CI/CD pipelines, preventing misconfigurations early in the development cycle. Ultimately, businesses benefit by reducing risks, improving agility, and maintaining a strong security posture.

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