Solutions · Hardened Cloud Images

Hardening at the image layer. Not the deployment.

Most cloud workloads inherit weak defaults and patch slowly. Cloudgenics moves hardening upstream — applying CIS Level 2, DISA STIG and ACSC Essential Eight controls before the image ever boots.

What we harden

Every control surface, every boot.

Kernel parameters, sysctls, and module blacklists
Filesystem mount options, partition separation, encryption at rest
Audit subsystem, journald, syslog forwarding and retention
Identity, sudo policy, PAM stack and SSH hardening
Service inventory pruning and systemd unit lockdown
Crypto policies (FIPS, RHEL crypto-policies, SChannel for Windows)
Endpoint detection, file integrity monitoring and configuration drift agents
Patch baselines for OS, kernel, and bundled runtimes

Frameworks applied

What the baseline maps to

CIS Benchmarks Level 1 & Level 2
DISA STIG (current SRG version)
ACSC Essential Eight Maturity Level 2 and 3
NIST SP 800-53 rev 5 Moderate / High
UAE NESA Information Assurance Standards
NIST SP 800-171 / CMMC L2 controls

Image supply chain

Signed. Attested. SBOM-shipped.

Every image is built on isolated, ephemeral infrastructure with reproducible provenance and a published Software Bill of Materials.

SLSA Level 3 build

Hermetic, isolated build pipeline with signed provenance attestations for every image.

Sigstore / cosign

Images signed with Sigstore-compatible keys and ephemeral CA backed by Cloudgenics certificate authority.

SBOM included

SPDX and CycloneDX SBOMs delivered with every image — package, version and CVE state included.