Policy-as-Code Implementation Services
PACLabs is proud to be the leading independent provider of policy-as-code professional services. We’ve worked with many organizations and provide a variety of focused capabilities to help you navigate the Policy-as-Code maze.
Strategic
Assessment & Evaluation
Do you have regulatory, compliance or Zero Trust challenges? Experiencing “Role Explosion” with your RBAC solution, and want to try something else? Do you have too many different systems and custom solutions for policy management and you need to simplify? Do you have performance challenges from centralized policy solutions? Are you wondering if the Policy-as-Code approach can help you with any of these problems? We will collaborate with you on examining your situation, and identifying whether PaC is an appropriate strategy. We use a transparent decision matrix to help score your options and avoid implicit bias on our part.
Vendor Evaluation & Selection
You want to explore Policy-as-Code, but you’re not sure what solution is appropriate to your problem? We have implementation experience with every major Policy-as-Code product, and can readily assess the balancing of cost, organizational fit, long-term support, complexity and technical appropriateness. We refuse to take compensation from any vendor, to ensure you get a recommendation that’s good for you, not for us.
Policy Discovery
You know you want to implement a Policy-as-Code solution, but you don’t know how to assess and organize your existing policies? We have both experience in policy discovery, and a process designed specifically to help collect, identify and capture your policies in a consistent way.
Implementation
Estimation
Do you have a lot of policies to write, and you’re not sure how long it will take? We have developed an estimation process that is a hybrid of the two best practices in estimation: the Delphi method and Markov Chain Monte Carlo. This is a collaborative process, and produces a range of estimates and risk assessments that give you the confidence you need to move forward.
Policy Authoring
You have a lot of policies you need to covert into policy code, and you can’t find talent willing to help? We have a network of dedicated and freelance policy authoring consultants who can get you started right way. We can provide this either as a dedicated team, or in collaboration with your own developers.
Solution Architecture
You know what you want, but you need help getting Policy-as-Code embedded into your enterprise architecture? Need help deciding between SaaS and on-premise management? We have implemented PaC agents on physical servers, VMs and containers, on top of Windows and most flavors of Linux. We can integrate with any endpoint you need, including: serverless functions, Kubernetes, OpenShift, legacy applications and microservices. We’ve installed PaC management solutions on servers, VMs and every major cloud vendor’s existing K8S stack.
Ongoing Operations
Vendor Support
Do you need someone to act as an intermediary for your Policy-as-Code vendor? Do you want someone to act as the first line of contact when things go wrong? Do you want someone to keep track of updates and changes, and alert you when these things might impact your organization? We stay on top of vendor offerings, issues, outages and maintenance, so you don’t have to.
DevOps Support
You want to build a dedicated policy implementation team, and need help getting that team operating in an agile manner? We’ve created multiple Policy-as-Code pipelines, and we can work with your existing tools and systems to minimize the need for new tools and infrastructure.
In addition, once you start pulling the policy out of the application and service code, your existing pipelines will need to be augmented with Policy-as-Code agent stubs and prototypes. We can help engineer the right solution, to minimize disruption of the existing development workload.
Training
Ready to have your own team of policy authors? Need help with best practices, common patterns and good policy hygiene? We provide comprehensive training for your authors, either at our facilities or on-site at yours.
Conclusion
If any of this sounds interesting, please feel free to contact us at: info@paclabs.io