NLT AICF
Automated Infrastructure & Cybersecurity Framework
AICF is the framework our cybersecurity practice uses to stand up, harden, and continuously govern infrastructure — whether migrating and managing legacy enterprise environments or building greenfield. Tool-agnostic infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code make implementations fast, testable, repeatable, self-documenting, self-healing, CI/CD-ready, and multi-cloud compatible — with security and compliance enforced before anything ships and continuously after.
Capabilities
What the Framework Delivers
Infrastructure as Code — Any Stack
Tool-agnostic IaC using Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, Pulumi, and native CloudFormation/Bicep. Provider-neutral across AWS (including GovCloud), Azure (including Government), Google Cloud, and on-premise/hybrid — so we fit your environment instead of forcing a rewrite.
Policy-as-Code & Guardrails
Automated governance using the right engine for the environment — Open Policy Agent (OPA/Rego), HashiCorp Sentinel, Checkov, Kyverno, and cloud-native guardrails. Pre-deployment policy checks block non-compliant or insecure changes before they ever ship.
Continuous Compliance & ATO Support
Control mapping and evidence automation for FedRAMP, FISMA / NIST RMF (800-53), CIS Benchmarks, and commercial frameworks such as HITRUST and SOC 2. POA&M tracking and audit-ready reporting accelerate and sustain Authority to Operate.
Drift Detection & Self-Healing
Post-deployment automated drift detection and remediation keeps every environment in its approved, hardened state — continuously, without manual intervention.
Secure CI/CD Pipelines
Build, test, and deploy pipelines with security shifted left: integrated SAST/DAST, SBOM generation, secrets scanning, and vulnerability gating (e.g., Trivy, Grype, Snyk, Checkov). Fast, testable, repeatable, and self-documenting by default.
Cloud Security Posture & Hardening
Continuous configuration assessment (CSPM), least-privilege identity, encryption, and benchmark hardening across multi-cloud and Kubernetes workloads — closing misconfigurations before they become incidents.
Container & Kubernetes Security
Cluster hardening, admission control, image scanning, and runtime policy enforcement for cloud-native federal and commercial workloads.
Vulnerability & Threat Management
Continuous scanning, risk-based prioritization, and remediation tracking, integrated with the broader monitoring and SOC workflow our cybersecurity team operates.
How We Use It
Part of NLT's Cybersecurity Practice
AICF is not a bolt-on product — it is the automation backbone our cybersecurity engineers bring to every cloud and modernization engagement. The same framework that provisions your infrastructure also enforces your security policy, proves your compliance, and keeps your environment hardened over time.
That means security and compliance are designed in from the first commit — not retrofitted before an audit. Pair AICF with our broader cybersecurity services for assessment, ATO support, continuous monitoring, and incident response.
Technology
Built on the Right Tools for Your Environment
Clouds
AWS (incl. GovCloud) · Azure (incl. Government) · Google Cloud · On-prem / Hybrid
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform / OpenTofu · Ansible · Pulumi · CloudFormation / Bicep
Policy-as-Code
OPA · Sentinel · Checkov · Kyverno · cloud-native guardrails
Compliance Frameworks
FedRAMP · FISMA / NIST RMF 800-53 · CIS · HITRUST · SOC 2
Past Performance
Proven Across Government and Commercial Cloud
Federal Statistical Computing Program (AWS GovCloud)
Infrastructure-as-code and secure cloud operations for a federal statistical computing environment on AWS GovCloud — CI/CD automation, policy enforcement, and continuous compliance monitoring under FISMA / RMF.
Healthcare Supply-Chain Operations (Azure)
Cloud security posture management and infrastructure automation for commercial healthcare supply-chain operations on Azure, sustaining a HITRUST-aligned security posture.
Secure Infrastructure, Automated From Day One
Bring AICF to your next migration or build and get infrastructure that is compliant, hardened, and self-healing by design — operated by the team that builds it.
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See NLT AICF in Action
Request a demo or talk to the NLT team about deploying this platform in your environment — managed-service subscription or on-premises options available.