Ciaran Finnegan is the cybersecurity practice lead at CMD Solutions Australia and Phil Massyn is a senior security consultant there. About a year ago they began using Steampipe and its CrowdStrike plugin to scan their customers’ AWS environments.
Now Finnegan and Massyn are building an internal system for what they call “continuous controls assurance.” Another way to say it might be “KPIs as code.” Here’s an example of a KPI (key performance indicator):
Critical or high severity vulnerabilities are remediated within the organization’s policy timeframe.
