Automate compliance across hybrid networks and cloud. From GDPR to FedRAMP, Itential ensures every change is validated, every audit is ready, and every regulation becomes manageable
The Challenge: Compliance Today is Broken
For most enterprises, compliance still feels like a scramble. Teams juggle spreadsheets, email threads, and outdated workflows to prove they are “audit-ready.” Regulations like GDPR, DORA, HIPAA, SOX, PCI DSS, and FedRAMP evolve faster than manual processes can keep up, leaving organizations vulnerable to missed requirements, costly fines, and reputational damage.
Traditional approaches also treat compliance as an event, not an ongoing state. Point-in-time audits force fire drills every quarter, while gaps go undetected between reviews. Compliance responsibilities are siloed across IT, security, and operations — each using their own tools – making it impossible to maintain a continuous, unified posture.
The result?
Costly
Hundreds of hours wasted collecting evidence and preparing for audits.
Slow
Compliance delays stall innovation and change windows.
Risky
Drift and blind spots expose enterprises to violations and breaches.
Unsustainable
Regulations evolve faster than teams and tools can adapt.
Compliance, done this way, is not just inefficient – it’s broken.
The Status Quo Tooling Landscape
Most enterprises already invest heavily in compliance-related software, but these tools only solve part of the puzzle:
| Category | Traditional Tools | What’s Missing |
|---|---|---|
| Governance & GRC | RSA Archer, ServiceNow GRC, MetricStream | Centralize policies & evidence but don’t enforce compliance in networks/cloud |
| SIEM & Security Ops | Splunk, QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel | Detect & alert, but don’t remediate or validate configs |
| Vulnerability & Config Scanners | Tenable, Qualys, Tripwire | Strong on endpoints, weak for network & hybrid infrastructure |
| Ticketing Systems | ServiceNow, Jira, Remedy | Track compliance tasks, but rely on manual execution |
| Specialized Suites | OneTrust, HITRUST, TrustArc | Interpret frameworks but don’t automate technical controls |
These tools document and monitor, but they don’t enforce. Itential uniquely bridges this gap – orchestrating enforcement across hybrid infrastructure while integrating with your existing GRC, SIEM, and ITSM investments.
How Itential Supports Key Compliance Areas
Data Privacy & Consumer Protection
(GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA)
Regulations:
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- California Consumer Privacy Act / California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA/CPRA)
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Challenge:
Every enterprise that collects or processes personal data – whether customer, employee, or patient – must demonstrate that information is protected, monitored, and auditable at all times. Regulations like GDPR and CCPA/CPRA place strict obligations on how consumer data is handled, while HIPAA adds additional requirements for healthcare providers. Manual, point-in-time audits leave gaps, expose sensitive data, and create unnecessary risk across industries.
How Itential Helps:
- Automates golden configurations to enforce data security policies.
- Runs continuous validation and remediation against privacy standards.
- Generates audit-ready reports for regulators on demand.
- Integrates with existing GRC and ITSM systems for seamless policy enforcement.
Outcomes
- Reduce HIPAA audit preparation time from 3 weeks to 3 days.
- Maintain continuous GDPR alignment across multi-cloud and on-prem networks.
- Eliminate manual policy validation, cutting compliance team workload by up to 60%.
Itential is SOC 2 Type 2 certified and committed to GDPR & CCPA compliance. By embedding compliance into our own operations, we help enterprises enforce data protection across their networks and clouds.
Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Protection
(NIST CSF, CISA, FISMA, EU NIS2, NERC CIP)
Regulations:
- National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF)
- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) guidelines
- Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)
- European Union Network and Information Security Directive 2 (NIS2)
- North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC CIP)
Challenge:
Secure, resilient infrastructure is now a requirement for every organization – from finance and government to energy and retail. These frameworks mandate strict technical controls, but enforcing them across thousands of hybrid and cloud systems is resource-intensive, and manual approaches can’t keep pace with evolving threats.
How Itential Helps:
- Orchestrates stateful compliance workflows across hybrid infrastructure.
- Provides remediation workflows that fix violations automatically.
- Integrates with SIEM platforms for event-driven compliance actions.
- Ensures ongoing alignment with cybersecurity frameworks, not just audits.
Outcomes
- Detect and remediate configuration drift within minutes instead of weeks.
- Achieve 99% compliance with NIST CSF policies across thousands of devices.
- Reduce risk of fines or incidents by ensuring real-time alignment with CISA and NIS2 mandates.
New Itential research reveals that 85% of enterprises struggle with network configuration compliance due to manual change controls and legacy systems. Automation is the only way forward.
Finance, Payments & Enterprise IT
(SOX, PCI DSS, DORA, GLBA, NYDFS)
Regulations:
- Sarbanes–Oxley Act (SOX)
- Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
- Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLBA)
- Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)
- New York Department of Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulation (NYDFS)
Challenge:
Financial institutions face some of the toughest regulatory requirements, but the challenge extends to any enterprise handling payments or sensitive financial data. These mandates require airtight controls and continuous audit readiness. Without automation, maintaining compliance across complex global systems is costly, inconsistent, and error-prone.
How Itential Helps:
- Maintains golden configs for cardholder and financial networks.
- Automates compliance dashboards and evidence collection.
- Delivers continuous reporting to internal risk teams and external auditors.
- Reduces audit preparation time from weeks to hours.
Outcomes
- Prove PCI DSS compliance instantly with automated golden config reports.
- Cut SOX evidence collection cycles by 70%, freeing audit teams to focus on analysis.
- Enforce consistent controls across 5,000+ devices in global cardholder environments.
In the banking sector, Itential helped a multinational bank reduce load balancer migrations from years to months, cut access wait times from weeks to minutes, and deliver a self-service portal with built-in RBAC and pre/post-check automation.”
Under the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), EU financial institutions must ensure operational resilience across ICT environments. Network orchestration can close the gap – automating segmentation, enforcing policies, and enabling fast incident reporting — so compliance is maintained without slowing operations.
Government & Defense
(FedRAMP, FISMA, ITAR, DFARS)
Regulations:
- Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP)
- Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)
- International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS)
Challenge:
Federal agencies, defense contractors, and any enterprise working with government systems must meet some of the strictest mandates in existence. These programs demand airtight governance across on-premises, cloud, and multi-vendor networks. Manual evidence collection creates delays, increases risk, and fuels audit fatigue in environments where compliance is non-negotiable.
How Itential Helps:
- Delivers defense-grade configuration management.
- Provides audit-ready documentation for strict federal and defense audits.
- Automates compliance for cloud service providers working under FedRAMP.
- Aligns with ITAR/DFARS requirements to protect sensitive technology.
Outcomes
- Generate audit-ready FedRAMP evidence on demand, reducing prep cycles from months to days.
- Maintain 100% visibility across multi-cloud defense networks with tamper-proof audit trails.
- Accelerate compliance onboarding for new contractors by automating baseline controls.
Compliance cannot wait until audit season. In our demo “How to Get Proactive with Compliance Validation,” see how Itential ensures every change aligns with frameworks like FedRAMP and FISMA before it hits production.
Federal mandates like EO 14028, OMB M-22-09, and NIST CSF 2.0 now require continuous policy enforcement, real-time compliance, and secure-by-default infrastructure. Itential enables agencies to modernize legacy systems in place – enforcing STIGs, automating workflows, and turning audit trails into live evidence rather than back-filled reports.”
Utilities & Critical Infrastructure
(NERC CIP, CISA, NIS2)
Regulations:
- North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC CIP)
- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Critical Infrastructure Guidelines
- European Union Network and Information Security Directive 2 (NIS2)
Challenge:
Energy providers, telecom operators, and other critical infrastructure organizations must meet rigorous compliance mandates while managing massive, distributed networks. These standards require continuous validation and strong controls, but manual compliance checks across thousands of assets are slow, expensive, and prone to error.
How Itential Helps:
- Automates configuration backups and updates across utility and grid networks.
- Provides remediation workflows that eliminate compliance violations in minutes.
- Ensures alignment with NERC CIP, CISA, and NIS2 frameworks through continuous validation.
- Delivers full visibility and audit-ready reports across massive, distributed infrastructures.
Outcomes
- Automated compliance validation across 12,000+ devices, reducing deployment time and cost by over 30%.
- Maintain tamper-proof audit trails across energy and grid networks for regulators.
- Eliminate thousands of manual engineering hours per month with automated workflows.
A North American utility automated compliance validation across 12,000+ devices with Itential, reducing cost and deployment time by over 30% while avoiding regulatory fines.
Southern California Edison modernized its grid with Itential automation, eliminating thousands of manual hours and strengthening compliance with critical infrastructure mandates.
Global & Cross-Industry Standards
(ISO/IEC 27001, COBIT, CSA)
Regulations:
- International Organization for Standardization ISO/IEC 27001 (ISO 27001)
- Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT)
- Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Standards
Challenges:
Multinational enterprises must unify compliance efforts across diverse geographies and business units. These frameworks provide a global baseline, but ensuring consistent enforcement while adapting to local regulatory requirements is nearly impossible with manual, fragmented approaches.
How Itential Helps:
- Centralizes governance across multi-cloud and global networks.
- Integrates with enterprise GRC for policy-to-execution alignment.
- Provides end-to-end visibility into compliance posture worldwide.
- Ensures enterprises meet baseline frameworks while adapting to local requirements.
Outcomes
- Achieve and maintain ISO 27001 alignment continuously without manual checklists.
- Scale compliance uniformly across multiple geographies and vendors.
- Demonstrate COBIT-based governance with real-time dashboards for executives and auditors.
Global enterprises face the challenge of proving compliance with dozens of overlapping frameworks, from ISO/IEC 27001 to COBIT and CSA Cloud Controls Matrix. Itential simplifies this by continuously enforcing policies across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, while integrating directly with your GRC systems for unified governance.
Why Itential is Purpose-Built for Compliance at Scale
No other platform can enforce regulatory compliance across every layer of hybrid infrastructure the way Itential can. By combining continuous validation, automated remediation, and integration with any tool or system, Itential turns complex regulatory frameworks into consistent, auditable outcomes. Whether you manage thousands of devices, multiple clouds, or global networks, only Itential delivers compliance automation at true enterprise scale.
Continuous Compliance
Most tools prepare you for audits after the fact. Itential enforces compliance continuously, validating every change in real time and preventing configuration drift before it creates risk.
Enforcement at Scale
Enterprises don’t just run servers — they run thousands of devices across multi-cloud and hybrid networks. Itential applies policies consistently across routers, firewalls, SD-WAN, and cloud systems, ensuring compliance everywhere.
Audit-Ready Confidence
Instead of scrambling for evidence, Itential generates audit-ready reports, validation results, and remediation logs on demand — cutting audit prep from weeks to hours and giving regulators instant transparency.
Itential Capabilities that Drive Compliance Outcomes
Itential delivers compliance automation through a set of integrated capabilities. Together, they help enterprises move from reactive fire drills to proactive, continuous compliance.
Configuration Manager
- Maintains compliance by ensuring every device and system stays aligned to golden configurations, eliminating drift that causes audit failures.
- Automates remediation plans so that when violations are detected, they can be fixed consistently across the entire network.
- Generates audit-ready compliance reports automatically, reducing audit preparation from weeks to hours.
Lifecycle Manager
- Maintains compliance by ensuring every device and system stays aligned to golden configurations, eliminating drift that causes audit failures.
- Automates remediation plans so that when violations are detected, they can be fixed consistently across the entire network.
- Generates audit-ready compliance reports automatically, reducing audit preparation from weeks to hours.
Job Viewer
- Gives teams and auditors full visibility into compliance operations, with a transparent record of every validation, remediation, and policy check.
- Creates an audit trail that makes regulatory reviews faster and easier to pass.
- Ensures accountability across IT, security, and operations, making compliance a shared, documented responsibility.
AI-Enabled Compliance
- Transforms regulatory text into enforceable controls by using AI with Itential’s orchestration engine to generate golden configuration templates directly from policy documents (e.g., PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, NIST)
- Delivers continuous, real-time validation of infrastructure changes, so compliance is maintained proactively rather than discovered during audits.
- Embeds AI reasoning inside workflows, enabling policy interpretation, log analysis, and remediation recommendations – all governed by Itential’s orchestration for security and auditability
- Reduces audit prep cycles from weeks to hours by automating evidence collection and mapping compliance outcomes directly to auditor requirements.
Integration-First Platform
- Built on a flexible API-first architecture, Itential integrates with any system – from GRC (Archer, ServiceNow) to SIEM (Splunk, Sentinel) to vulnerability scanners (Qualys, Tenable) – ensuring compliance is unified across the enterprise.
- Let’s customers use the right tool for the right job, preserving their existing investments while extending them with automation.
- Acts as the policy-to-execution bridge – taking compliance requirements from governance platforms and automatically enforcing them in networks, clouds, and devices.
- Provides future-proof scalability, making it easy to adopt new tools, vendors, or clouds without disrupting compliance operations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can a platform like Itential make us compliant with HIPAA or FedRAMP?
Certification comes from auditors, not software. What Itential does is automate the controls – validations, golden configurations, remediation workflows, and reporting that prove compliance with frameworks like HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program). This reduces audit prep, closes compliance gaps, and ensures evidence is always ready.
How does Itential help with PCI DSS compliance?
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requires strict controls over cardholder data. Itential enforces golden configurations across payment networks, validates every change, and generates automated reports so PCI DSS evidence is available instantly.
What makes Itential different from GRC tools like RSA Archer or ServiceNow GRC?
GRC tools document policies and evidence. They don’t enforce compliance across infrastructure. Itential bridges that gap – taking governance requirements and automatically enforcing them across routers, firewalls, SD-WAN, and cloud systems.
We use ServiceNow, Splunk, and Qualys. How does Itential fit in?
Itential is integration-first. We connect with ITSM (ServiceNow), SIEM (Splunk), and vulnerability scanners (Qualys, Tenable) to orchestrate them together. This lets you keep the right tool for the right job while automating enforcement across infrastructure.
Can Itential handle hybrid cloud and multi-vendor environments?
Yes. Itential was designed for complex environments. From Cisco and Juniper to Palo Alto, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, Itential enforces compliance consistently across thousands of devices and multiple clouds.
What is continuous compliance and how does Itential enable it?
Continuous compliance means every change is validated in real time, not just during audits. Itential automates ongoing checks, ensures configs never drift from golden standards, and generates audit-ready evidence continuously.
How fast can enterprises see compliance value with Itential?
Many customers produce their first golden configs and compliance reports in weeks. Over time, workflows mature to enforce policies continuously – cutting audit prep from weeks to hours.
Does Itential help with new regulations like DORA or NIS2?
Yes. The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and the EU Network and Information Security Directive 2 (NIS2) require continuous resilience and security. Itential automates configuration enforcement and validation across networks and cloud environments to meet those evolving mandates.
Can Itential automate evidence collection for auditors?
Yes. Itential continuously generates reports, logs, and validation results. Instead of weeks of manual evidence gathering, auditors can review automated, tamper-proof records instantly.
What industries benefit most from Itential compliance automation?
Highly regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, government, and utilities but any enterprise that faces data protection or security frameworks can benefit.
How does Itential reduce compliance risk?
By continuously validating configs, preventing drift, and automating remediation, Itential reduces the chance of non-compliance violations and regulatory fines.
What’s the biggest business outcome of using Itential?
Enterprises spend less time on audits, avoid costly violations, and build trust with regulators and customers. Compliance shifts from being a bottleneck to being a competitive advantage.
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