Your CSPM found 847 critical issues this month. You fixed 12. The math doesn’t work—and it’s not your fault.
I’ve spent the last 4 years in some of the most secure environments in the world: Los Alamos National Laboratory, MITRE Corporation, a major defense contractor. I’ve watched the best security teams drown in alerts while auditors asked for evidence that didn’t exist.
The problem isn’t alert fatigue. It’s that we built an entire industry around FINDING cloud issues, not FIXING them.
The CSPM Model Is Broken
Cloud Security Posture Management tools follow a simple model:
- Scan everything
- Alert on everything
- Hope someone fixes something
Reality: Security teams review less than 5% of alerts. The rest accumulate in backlogs, waiting to become incidents.
Meanwhile:
- Compliance teams spend 6 weeks manually collecting evidence for audits
- Finance gets surprise Azure OpenAI bills with zero visibility into what caused them
- Platform engineers juggle 6+ tools that don’t talk to each other
The gap between identification and remediation—that’s where security incidents happen. That’s where compliance failures occur. That’s where money is wasted.
What Real Governance Looks Like
Real governance means:
✔ Making decisions automatically
✔ Documenting every action
✔ Self-healing before incidents
✔ Continuous compliance evidence
Not quarterly scans. Not manual POA&Ms. Not “we’ll get to it next sprint.”
The PolicyCortex Approach
I left Los Alamos 18 months ago to build something different. Not a better scanner—an autonomous governance system.
Phase 1: Shadow Mode
Before touching production, Xovyr (our AI engine) observes and suggests. You see what it would do, validate its reasoning, build confidence. No production changes. Just intelligence.
Phase 2: Digital Twin Simulation
Before any production change, we simulate it. See the impact. Validate the outcome. Approve with confidence.
Phase 3: Self-Healing with Rollback
Xovyr executes with validation. If something goes wrong, automatic rollback. Safety built into every action.
Beyond Security
PolicyCortex isn’t just about fixing misconfigurations. It’s a complete governance platform:
- Full ATO/CMMC Automation: Evidence collection, SSP generation, POAM tracking, FedRAMP package assembly
- AI Observability: Token-level cost attribution for Azure OpenAI
- Unified Policy Engine: OPA + Steampipe + Cloud Custodian in one interface
- Natural Language Command Center: Ask questions, get answers, take action
Built by Practitioners
Our team has been in the trenches:
- Los Alamos National Lab (DoE Q clearance)
- MITRE Corporation (DoD Secret clearance)
- USAA (financial services compliance)
We’ve written SSPs at 2 AM. We’ve scrambled for audit evidence. We’ve explained surprise cloud bills to finance. PolicyCortex is the platform we wished existed.
What’s Next
We’re launching with a design partner program. Looking for 10 organizations—government contractors, regulated enterprises, AI-forward companies—who want to shape the future of autonomous governance.
If you’re tired of managing alerts and ready to start governing, we’d love to talk.
What’s your alert-to-fix ratio? And how do you handle the backlog?
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