Automated Validation of Configuration and Compliance in Cloud Servers

摘要

A method, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for automated validation of compliance in a cloud server. The method includes remotely accessing a target cloud server to discover at least one configuration setting of the target cloud server, integrating the at least one configuration setting from the target cloud server with information from at least one back-end tool to produce compliance evidence, and automatically answering a set of at least one checklist question for activation compliance validation of the target cloud server based on the compliance evidence.