How Well Are You Preventing Security Risks?
You've visualized your preventive policies. You understand what org policies exist and which security objectives they enforce. Now comes the next question: Where are the gaps?
Understanding your preventive posture means measuring how well you're achieving security objectives, discovering where you can improve, and finding the most effective preventive controls to implement.
Objectives align to multiple dimensions:
- Priorities - P1 foundational controls through P5 hygiene
- Categories - Identity, Data, Network, Infrastructure
- Layers - Build, Access, Config, Runtime
Benchmark and score your preventive coverage:
Scoring Your Preventive Coverage
Guardrails scores each objective on a 0-5 scale based on your coverage across multiple layers. An objective with preventive controls at multiple layers scores higher than one with single-layer protection.
The dashboard shows your overall prevention score reflecting how effectively your preventions meet security objectives across all accounts. See which priorities have gaps, which categories need attention, and which layers are strong or weak.
Aligning to Industry Benchmarks
Objectives map to industry frameworks and custom internal benchmarks. Guardrails comes with out-of-the-box objectives aligned to CIS Foundations Benchmarks, NIST 800-53, and other security and compliance frameworks.
Many objectives appear in multiple benchmarks, so implementing one prevention can improve multiple framework scores simultaneously.
Recommendations for Improvement
Guardrails analyzes your environment and generates recommendations on what to deploy next. Recommendations consider your current coverage gaps, account structure, risk reduction potential, and defense in depth opportunities.
Each recommendation includes the exact policy JSON, where to deploy it, and the expected impact on your prevention score and benchmark alignment.
Measuring the Impact
After you apply an updated org policy, Guardrails immediately discovers it, adds it as a prevention rule, and updates the objective score. Accounts covered by the policy show improved prevention coverage.
The benchmark view updates to reflect improved posture. You closed a gap, raised the bar, and have evidence to show executives and auditors.
