Compliance
How the transformation is governed, enforced, and proved — federal mandates through validation suites
Compliance
The how the transformation is governed and proved. Federal mandates drive the scope (FedRAMP, CISA SCuBA, Executive Orders, NIST 800-53). Policy libraries encode the controls. Validation suites prove they hold. Drift detection catches divergence. Incident playbooks restore when they don’t.
ImportantTwo-way governance
UIAO’s governance posture is “SCuBA assesses · ScubaConnect automates · UIAO governs.” Compliance in UIAO is not an auditor’s after-the-fact report; it is a continuous evidentiary pipeline feeding the same drift engine that governs modernization.
Sub-categories
| Section | Scope | Leaf count |
|---|---|---|
| A. Federal Mandates | FedRAMP Mod/High, SCuBA, EO 14028 + 14110, NIST 800-53, 800-171 | 8 |
| B. Boundary + Authorization | GCC-Moderate boundary model, data classification, ATO / OSCAL, 3PAO | 6 |
| C. Evidence + Telemetry | Telemetry model (MOD_X), KSI, ScubaGear, drift engine (MOD_M), state machine (MOD_S), signed commits, SIEM | 7 |
| D. Policy Libraries | Conditional Access, Intune, Azure Arc, STIG, SCuBA baseline, Defender | 6 |
| E. Controls + Testing | Validation suites, MOD_J test suite, MOD_K decision trees, MOD_O mock tenant, continuous monitoring | 7 |
| F. Incident + Response | DR playbook (IR-8), MOD_Q SLA escalation, runbooks, break-glass, active-passive replication | 5 |
| G. Governance Canon | Master Document Spec v1.3, metadata + validation blocks, canon change protocol, ADRs, error taxonomy | 10 |
Canonical invariants
- Boundary: GCC-Moderate SaaS. The only Commercial-Cloud exception is Amazon Connect Contact Center.
- Evidence: every control assertion has a signed, provenanced artifact behind it. No verbal assurances.
- Classification: Controlled · CUI · (future) Secret. “UNCLASSIFIED” is non-canonical and treated as drift.
- Boundary enforcement: out-of-scope references are rejected at canon validation, not at assessment time.