Guardrails Solution Accelerator for the Government of Canada now released!

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The FastTrack for Azure (FTA) team has released an open-source solution to check any Canada federal department's compliance requirements against the 12 mandated guardrails. With the "Government departments responsible for continuously auditing their cloud environments", the FastTrack for Azure team worked directly with several departments to build and deploy the solution to shorten time for evidence package gathering and assist in this requirement.

 

 

 

The GC Solution Accelerator is a multi-lingual solution built and deployed using Azure native tools which periodically scans customers’ environment and provides a simplified visualization of guardrails compliance posture available through the Azure Portal. It leverages Azure native resources such as Microsoft Graph API, Azure Policy, Azure Key Vault, Azure Automation, Azure Monitor and Log Analytics, displaying auditing reports on workbooks and Azure Managed Grafana. It complements the Canada's Public Sector Azure Landing Zone reference implementation and ideally installed after the landing zone deployment. As of publishing, the tool has expanded to provide a centralized, secure and simplified visual tools to audit compliance status for Shared Services Canada using Azure LightHouse. It is currently on pilot phase.

 

 

 

 

• If you are a Canadian federal department or a public sector agency looking to follow the Treasury Board Secretariat's mandatory guardrails, get started by downloading and deploying the guardrails solution here at GitHub - Azure/GuardrailsSolutionAccelerator: This reference implementation is based on the 30-days guardrails requirements as part of the GC Cloud Operationalization Framework, it offers an automated way to verify if the department has implemented the recommended controls provided by Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) and display the results in a comprehensive format. or at GitHub - Azure/GuardrailsSolutionAccelerator
  
• If you have a feature request for the tool, submit an New Issue using GitHub here: Issues · Azure/GuardrailsSolutionAccelerator
  

 

For more information on what the Government of Canada guardrails require, please go to GitHub - canada-ca/cloud-guardrails: Minimum guardrails for GC's cloud operationalization framework.

 

 

 

FastTrack for Azure Program is an Azure Customer Experience Program under Microsoft's Cloud and AI engineering organization. Move to Azure efficiently with customized guidance from Azure engineering. For more information, go to FastTrack for Azure – Benefits and FAQ | Microsoft Azure

 

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