Assurance & visibility

PHAROS

Maintain auditable visibility into compliance posture and operational drift. Posture is measured against the control baseline continuously — not reconstructed at the next assessment cycle.

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The problem

Compliance status is only known at audit time

Drift goes undetected until assessors find it. Stakeholders lack visibility into security posture between assessments. PHAROS monitors the running system against the active control baseline, detects configuration drift the moment a previously passing control begins failing, and keeps ConMon evidence current after every release — so the monthly cycle is a review, not an excavation.

PHAROS exists to observe compliance — not assume it.

Core capabilities

What it does

Posture dashboards

Compliance visualized across controls, projects, and frameworks from live data.

·Control-family rollups
·Per-system authorization posture
·Seven-factor ATO readiness score

Drift detection

Alerts when systems deviate from compliant baselines — before an assessor notices.

·Baseline vs. current state comparison
·Previously passing controls reopened on failure
·Remediation triggered automatically

Role-based views

Each stakeholder sees posture at their altitude.

·Executive summaries for AOs
·Technical detail for ISSOs
·Read-only auditor views for 3PAO / SCA-V

Trend analysis

Remediation velocity and compliance trajectory over time, not snapshots.

·Posture history per control
·Remediation cycle-time tracking
·Cross-cycle comparison

POA&M engine

Findings tracked from open to verified-closed with full accountability.

·Milestones, due dates, and owners
·Residual risk tracking
·Closure requires verified evidence

ConMon report generator

Monthly continuous-monitoring deliverables, generated rather than assembled.

·Recurring reporting packages
·eMASS-formatted CSV export
·OSCAL assessment outputs

How it works

Step-by-step lifecycle

01
Scheduler runs
Periodic scans, posture refresh jobs, and ConMon cycles execute on schedule — or on demand when an ISSO needs a current picture.
02
Collectors gather posture
Runtime collectors pull cloud, Kubernetes, container, host, and application state; sync workers import updated scanner results.
03
Drift engine compares
Current state is evaluated against the approved baseline and expected configuration. Deviations become findings.
04
POA&M updates
Findings are tracked with milestones, owners, due dates, and residual risk. Nothing closes without closure evidence.
05
Reports generate
The ConMon generator produces the monthly package and OSCAL assessment results; dashboards update for every role.

Example scenario

A monthly ConMon cycle, without the 40 hours

The cycle closes with evidence already in place. The ISSO reviews exceptions, exports the eMASS file, and imports it in minutes — instead of copying evidence by hand for a week.

Illustrative example. Not real customer data.

Demo · Illustrative only

Controls passing

247 / 25098.8%

Drift events this cycle

3 detected, 2 remediated1 OPEN

POA&M items

12 open · 2 due this weekTRACKED

ConMon report

Generated · eMASS CSV readyDONE

ISSO review time

3.5 hoursWAS 40

Audit output

What PHAROS generates

Assurance reports for auditors
Executive compliance summaries
Continuous monitoring dashboards
eMASS-formatted ConMon exports
OSCAL assessment results
POA&M status with closure evidence

The boundary

PHAROS observes what RAMPART enforces and AXIOM defines.

A finding is not closed until the deployed artifact is verified as remediated in the running environment. Posture is measured, never assumed — and never self-reported.

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