Blind to risk until it's too late
Security and compliance issues surface only after development is complete — forcing costly rework, delaying features, and introducing unplanned risk to mission-critical systems.
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Continuous compliance built directly into the software delivery pipeline for defense security authorization.
The Problem
Compliance is breaking mission delivery
18+ Mo
Average time to authorization
Per system, before a single deployment
$1M+
Per-system cost
Before code reaches production
Zero
Real-time visibility
No live compliance status view across the portfolio
Security is bolted on, not built in.
Manual compliance, repeated assessments, and late-stage findings mean warfighters wait on software that's already built — while costs and timelines spiral.
Manual artifact collection
Documentation and evidence assembled by hand after development create labor-intensive, error-prone work — generating redundant effort across portfolios and artifacts that still fall short at review.
Backlogged assessments
Inconsistent assessments, misaligned expectations, and tedious manual maintenance create queues that teams can't clear — leaving warfighters with capabilities months behind what's built.
The Solution
Continuous compliance built into delivery and runtime, for defense
A platform that assists with security requirements and automatically generates compliance artifacts from source code and infrastructure — turning compliance from a bottleneck into a delivery accelerator. No manual artifact collection. No delayed ATO cycles. No added burden.
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How It Works
Embedded across the entire software delivery and authorization lifecycle
01BUILD
Security from the first line of code.
Compliance embedded from the first commit at every stage of the development lifecycle, within the existing toolchain. Engineers catch compliance issues in real time — not during a review months later — and accumulate little to no compliance debt.
compliance report
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IRONMIST COMPLIANCE REPORT
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Pass Rate: 19%
20 passed · 81 failed · 3 N/A · Total 104
EKS cluster has critical security gaps — public API endpoint, missing encryption, IAM integration.
✗ [SC-7(3)] Access Points
Resource: module.eks
Severity: HIGH
Location: infra/main.tf · Line 110
Issue: Cluster API endpoint is publicly accessible
Fix: Set endpoint_public_access to false
✗ [AC-2] Account Management — IAM database authentication not enabled
02VALIDATE
Machine-generated compliance artifacts. Automatically.
Machine-generated documentation and evidence directly from code and infrastructure. Always current, no manual documentation sprints.
security control status
Sentinel API · 2026-05-08 14:23 UTC
430 controls · NIST 800-53 rev. 5 · status: current
AC-2Account Management✓ verified
AC-3Access Enforcement⋯ running
SC-8Transmission Confidentiality and Integrity✓ verified
AU-2Event Logging✓ verified
CM-6Configuration Settings✓ verified
Generate SSP documentation and evidence for Sentinel API [Y/n]: Y
03ASSESS
Continuous portfolio view, not a document request.
Portfolio-wide view of all systems with up-to-date compliance status and evidence feed. Leadership and Assessors see current status across every system — not stale snapshots.
PROJECTS
Manage portfolio of information systems
NetX Intelligence
Network Intelligence tracking
March 14, 2026IL4
FighterHealth Systems
Unified care management
May 15, 2026IL4
UAS Defense
Sensor data intelligence
April 19, 2026IL5
04DELIVER
On time. On budget. No compliance surprises.
On-time delivery with no compliance surprises. Program Managers and System Owners execute with confidence. No last-minute findings, no emergency documentation cycles, no unplanned remediation before a release. Software reaches the warfighter on schedule, secure by design.
Authorization status
Ready to deploy to thewarfighter
UAS Defense · IL5
Authorization decision
ReadyRelease readiness
On track · deploy Apr 19, 2026
ATO lapse risk
Low · no interrupted access expected
POA&M drift
+12% vs authorized residual risk
The Impact
Clear and predictable mission delivery
18+ Mo
Average time to authorization
Per system, before a single deployment
$1M+
Per-system cost
Before code reaches production
Zero
Real-time visibility
No live compliance status view across the portfolio
Secure-by-design software delivered faster
Modern software delivered to the warfighter — without compliance surprises, rework cycles, or unplanned cost.
PPBE cost predictability
Eliminate rework and unplanned remediation spend driven by late-stage security findings.
Compliance health monitoring
Know the compliance status of every system in the portfolio, live — not at the last review.
Authorization readiness
Reduce last-minute compliance findings that delay milestone approval, feature delivery, and mission timelines.
The Company
Built by operators who've shipped at scale
We bring execution experience from demanding environments: defense, highly regulated fintech and large-scale, user-centric video gaming.
Now we are applying that multi-domain discipline — defense, compliance rigor from fintech, resilient systems at scale from gaming — directly to national security.