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Core 01 · Cluster Operations
Kubernetes security and compliance — audit-ready, continuously.
Atmosly scans every connected cluster against CIS, NSA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and HIPAA — continuously. It catches drift the moment posture regresses, and generates the evidence pack auditors actually ask for. Compliance becomes a dashboard you watch, not a fire drill you survive.
- ✓ Read-only scanning
- ✓ Drift detection
- ✓ Evidence-pack export
CIS K8s92%
NSA88%
PCI DSS78%
SOC 284%
HIPAA81%
Top findings
2 pods with privileged: true
Network policies missing in 6 namespaces
9 service accounts with overly-broad RBAC
Scanned continuously against
CIS Benchmark
NSA Hardening
PCI DSS
SOC 2
HIPAA
ISO 27001
How it works
Scan, catch drift, prove it — without an audit-prep quarter.
Security runs continuously on every connected cluster. No point-in-time snapshot that's stale by lunchtime — a live posture you can watch, and evidence you can hand to an auditor on demand.
RBACRole bindings · least-privilege checks
netpolNamespace isolation · ingress/egress
pod-secPrivileged, hostPath, capabilities
imageRegistry trust · known CVEs
01 — Scan
Continuous checks across every control surface
RBAC, network policy, pod security, secrets, and images — checked continuously against every framework you care about, on every cluster, without you scheduling a thing.
- CIS, NSA, PCI DSS, SOC 2 & HIPAA frameworks
- RBAC, network-policy & pod-security checks
- A live posture score per framework — not a yearly snapshot
10:14SOC 2 posture 86% → 84%
causeNew SA bound to cluster-admin
alertFlagged to #security · owner notified
02 — Catch drift
Know the moment posture regresses
Configuration drifts — a new binding, a relaxed policy, a fresh namespace without isolation. Atmosly compares posture across every connected cluster and flags the regression, with the cause attached, before it lands in an audit finding.
- Drift detection across every connected cluster
- Each regression carries its cause from the audit log
- Owner notified — no waiting for the next quarterly review
SOC 2 Type II · Q2 2026
Control coverage, check results, and remediation history — exported as the artifact your auditor accepts.
EXPORTevidence-pack · prod-cluster.pdf
controls 142/148timestamped
03 — Prove
The evidence pack auditors actually ask for
When the audit comes, the artifact is already built: control coverage, check results, and remediation history per framework — exported on demand, not assembled by hand over a frantic week.
- Audit-ready evidence pack export, per framework
- Control coverage + remediation history, timestamped
- Zero audit-prep cycles — it's always current
What's inside
Coverage across every Kubernetes attack surface
The checks that turn a cluster from "probably fine" into a posture you can prove — and defend.
Framework coverage
CIS, NSA Kubernetes Hardening, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and HIPAA — each scored continuously, per cluster.
RBAC & permissions
Surfaces over-broad role bindings and service accounts before they become the breach path.
Network policy
Flags namespaces without isolation and risky ingress/egress paths across the cluster.
Pod security
Catches privileged containers, hostPath mounts, and dangerous capabilities at admission and at rest.
Image & supply chain
Checks registry trust and known CVEs so what runs in the cluster is what you vetted.
Audit-ready evidence
One-click evidence pack with control coverage and remediation history, accepted by auditors.
The payoff
What changes when compliance runs itself
5+
frameworks scored continuously, per cluster
0
audit-prep cycles — the evidence is always current
minutes
to a shareable evidence pack, not a quarter
every
cluster compared for drift, continuously
Representative of customer-reported outcomes. Your results depend on cluster count and current posture.
Same control plane
Security is one of three cores
An incident, a security finding, and a cost change are the same story — surfaced in one UI, with one audit trail and one permissions model.
Questions
What teams ask before connecting a cluster
Does scanning need write access to my cluster?
No. Security scanning is read-only. Atmosly reads your cluster's configuration and reports posture, drift, and findings — it never needs write access to assess you. Remediation, when you choose it, runs through the same guardrails as everything else.
Does it replace Trivy, Kyverno, or my admission controller?
It complements them. Atmosly gives you a unified posture across frameworks and clusters, and coexists with the policy and scanning tools you already run — pulling their signal into one place rather than asking you to rip anything out.
How is drift actually detected?
Atmosly continuously re-scores each cluster's posture and compares it over time and across clusters. When a framework score regresses — a new binding, a relaxed policy — it's flagged with the cause pulled from the audit log, so you see what changed and why.
Will auditors accept the evidence pack?
The pack is built around what auditors ask for: control coverage, check results, and timestamped remediation history per framework. It's the artifact teams hand over for SOC 2 and PCI DSS reviews — generated on demand, always reflecting the cluster's current state.
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