A proof of concept allows you to evaluate Trend Micro Cloud One™ – Conformity’s capabilities and gives you the chance to evaluate Conformity at a deeper level. If you decide to run a POC on Cloud One Conformity, the following guidelines will increase the likelihood of success. They are divided into the following two sections and how we can assist you:
Entry Criteria
The Entry Criteria is a set of tasks that enable most of the functionality in the tool ensuring everything is in place to meet the Success Criteria.
Applied for a Trial Account from https://cloudone.trendmicro.com/SignUp.screen
Onboarded a cloud account
Enabled Real-time monitoring
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Configured a Communications Channel
Configured a basic Profile
(Optional) Enabled Auto Remediate
Success Criteria
The following are pointers to success criterion you might consider to add to your own.
Visibility Use Cases
Do the rules cover critical use cases?
Can I increase the reliability of my workloads according to my own needs?
Can I increase the performance of my workloads?
Is access to resources and services configured according to my objectives (Access Control, Data Protection, Monitoring, etc)
Can I apply rule configurations to multiple accounts?
Can I generate reports based on Tags?
Ensure Conformity can improve the configuration of your environments:
Automatically amend misconfiguration of resources
Provide automatic creation and closure of tickets
Facilitate manual remediation of findings:
Regular or ad-hoc findings report
Delegation via Email, tickets
Customization and Usability
Ensure Conformity can be configured to meet your own access, usability and configuration needs:
Adding custom rules and custom checks
Configure rules to match your risk appetite
Configure known exceptions to the rules
White-labeling reports
DevOps stories
Ensure Conformity can be integrated into your DevOps processes (CI/CD):
Provide early warning of misconfigurations in Infrastructure as Code, i.e. CloudFormation
Our assistance during your POC
During your POC we will provide the following assistance:
Regular meetings at your own cadence, i.e: track progress, review milestones
Technical assistance configuring the functionality in the Entry Criteria
Advise on using our Help Pages
The following functionality is not available during our free trial:
Access to the Conformity API
Configuration of SSO