As modern enterprises embrace cloud-native technologies and hybrid multi-cloud environments, the complexity of managing security and compliance is reaching unprecedented levels. Each cloud platform comes with hundreds of services, adding layers of complexity to already intricate architectures. Containers have become the default packaging for modern applications, while Kubernetes is now the de facto standard for orchestrating these containerized workloads. As a result, enterprises often manage hundreds of dynamic Kubernetes clusters, each presenting its own set of security and operational challenges.

Simultaneously, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automates provisioning and configuration management, but it also opens the door to rampant misconfigurations. Despite the massive increase in security spending, organizations are still struggling to slow down the relentless pace of cyberattacks. The traditional methods of managing security and operations simply don’t work at this scale. To truly stay ahead, organizations must adopt SecOps automation at scale, powered by Policy-as-Code.

The Need for SecOps Automation at Scale, Powered by Policy-as-Code

As cloud-native infrastructure becomes increasingly complex, there is a critical need for SecOps automation that can scale to meet the demands of modern enterprises. One of the most effective ways to address these challenges is by adopting Policy-as-Code, where security and operational best practices are defined as declarative policies and enforced automatically across environments.

Several key drivers are accelerating the adoption of SecOps automation powered by Policy-as-Code:

Platform Teams are the New Operations Teams:

As enterprises adopt DevOps and DevSecOps practices, platform engineering teams are responsible for ensuring that infrastructure and applications remain secure, compliant, and operational. These teams require tools to streamline security management without slowing down developers.

Kubernetes is the Platform for Building Platforms:

Kubernetes has become the foundation on which enterprises build internal platforms. It enables teams to deploy and scale applications with agility, but its complexity introduces risks that require continuous management and governance.

Developer Agility Requires Secure Self-Service Operations:

Developers today demand self-service platforms to move faster, but this can lead to unintended misconfigurations and security vulnerabilities. SecOps automation ensures that developers can innovate while adhering to security and operational policies.

“Shift Down” Security Consolidates Best Practices:

Shifting security “down” into the platform layer, rather than just focusing on shifting security left in the software development lifecycle, enables teams to enforce security at multiple levels, ensuring protection across the entire stack—from CI/CD pipelines to infrastructure.

Policy-as-Code is the Only Way to Ensure Continuous Compliance:

With the increasing complexity of cloud and Kubernetes environments, manual policy management is no longer feasible. Policy-as-Code enables organizations to automate the enforcement of security, compliance, and operational best practices at scale, reducing human error and ensuring continuous compliance.

Introducing Nirmata Control Hub: The Platform for SecOps Automation with Policy-as-Code

 

To address these challenges, we’re excited to announce the next evolution of our flagship product, Nirmata Control Hub – a powerful, extensible platform that provides comprehensive SecOps automation through Policy-as-Code. Nirmata Control Hub (previously Nirmata Policy Manager) simplifies the enforcement of security, operational, and best practice policies across CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, and cloud services, ensuring that organizations can maintain secure, compliant, and efficient cloud-native environments.

Powered by Kyverno, a leading CNCF policy engine, Nirmata Control Hub offers a range of capabilities designed to streamline and automate security and operational workflows. Here are some key features and their corresponding benefits:

Key Capabilities of Nirmata Control Hub

• Centralized Visibility and Insights

Gain real-time visibility into the security posture of your Kubernetes clusters, cloud services, and CI/CD pipelines. The platform provides detailed reporting, alerts, and audit logs to track policy violations and assess compliance. This improves transparency across environments, allowing platform and security teams to quickly identify and resolve issues before they impact production systems.

• Automated Policy Enforcement

Nirmata Control Hub automates the enforcement of policies across all stages of the development lifecycle, from CI/CD pipelines to runtime environments. Policies are applied automatically, ensuring consistent governance and reducing the risk of human error. This ensures continuous compliance and reduces the manual effort involved in enforcing security and operational policies, allowing teams to focus on higher-value tasks.

• Automated Remediation Suggestions

When policy violations or misconfigurations are detected, Nirmata Control Hub provides actionable remediation suggestions to help teams quickly resolve issues. This feature goes beyond simply alerting teams by offering concrete steps to fix the problem. It speeds up the resolution of security issues, increases developer efficiency and compliance issues, reduces downtime and ensures that production environments remain secure and compliant.

• Exception Management

Nirmata Control Hub streamlines the management of policy exceptions, providing fine-grained control over how and when exceptions are applied. Teams can easily track and manage exceptions while ensuring that overall security remains intact. This simplifies the process of managing exceptions without compromising security, providing flexibility for teams while maintaining control over the environment.

• Rich Integration with DevOps Tools

Nirmata Control Hub integrates seamlessly with popular DevOps tools such as Slack, GitHub, and other CI/CD platforms. This allows teams to incorporate policy enforcement into their existing workflows and create alerts, tickets, and notifications based on policy violations. This increases collaboration between development, operations, and security teams by integrating policy enforcement into the tools they already use, improving efficiency and reducing friction.

• Policy Studio (AI-powered Policy Generator)

Policy Studio enables platform teams to easily create and test new policies using AI. Teams can generate policies based on best practices or customize them to meet specific organizational needs. These policies can be tested on live clusters to ensure their effectiveness before being rolled out at scale. It drastically reduces the time and complexity involved in creating security and operational policies, while providing real-time feedback and ensuring policies align with organizational requirements.

 

Introducing Cloud Control Point

In addition to enforcing policies in Kubernetes clusters and CI/CD pipelines, Nirmata Control Hub can now be used to enforce policies for cloud services using the Cloud Control Point. Cloud Control Point provides inline admission control for cloud services and continuously scans cloud environments to detect potential vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. It enforces preventive security controls, reducing the number of alerts and minimizing operational overhead. By proactively preventing security issues and misconfigurations, it reduces the workload on security teams and improves overall security posture.

The ROI of Nirmata Control Hub

By automating security and operational processes through Policy-as-Code, Nirmata Control Hub delivers significant returns on investment (ROI) for enterprises. The platform helps reduce security and operational risks, minimizes the time and effort spent on manual policy enforcement, and enhances developer productivity. Here are the key ROI benefits:

• Up to 90% Reduction in Security Alerts: With proactive policy enforcement and remediation suggestions, enterprises experience fewer alerts, allowing security teams to focus on high-priority issues.
• Increased Developer Agility: Self-service operations allow developers to move quickly while ensuring they adhere to security and compliance policies. This improves developer productivity without sacrificing security.
• Faster Time-to-Resolution: Automated remediation suggestions speed up the resolution of security violations, reducing the potential impact on production systems and minimizing downtime.
• Reduced Operational Overhead: Centralized visibility and automated policy enforcement reduce the manual effort required to maintain secure, compliant environments, freeing up resources for innovation and growth.

In today’s fast-paced and complex digital landscape, enterprises must adopt tools that allow them to scale securely without slowing down innovation. Nirmata Control Hub is the platform that makes this possible—by providing SecOps automation at scale through Policy-as-Code, Nirmata ensures that your cloud-native environments remain secure, compliant, and efficient. 

With the launch of Nirmata Control Hub, we are committed to supporting our customers with a platform that scales with their needs, offering accessible, efficient security automation and governance solution built for modern cloud infrastructures. This transition will be seamless for our existing customers. All features including the new capabilities announced earlier are available as part of the existing subscription.

For more information, visit https://nirmata.com/ or request a demo today to see how Nirmata Control Hub can transform your security operations.