Organizations must manage Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) to secure their IT environments, but the manual verification process is a significant burden. While powerful tools exist for automating scans and centralized checklist management, they present considerable challenges at scale. This presentation outlines an enterprise solution that uses Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) to orchestrate these tools, transforming STIG compliance from a manual, error-prone effort into a streamlined, repeatable workflow.
The traditional, decentralized approach to STIG compliance is inefficient and insecure. Keeping evaluation tools up-to-date and consistently configured across a fleet of assets is difficult, leading to configuration drift and increased administrative overhead. Furthermore, manually initiating and managing scans creates blind spots and lacks centralized control.
AAP addresses these weaknesses by serving as the central nervous system for your compliance operations. Its agentless architecture allows for dynamic and ephemeral execution, enabling a "stage, run, and cleanup" model that minimizes security risks. Ansible Playbooks can dynamically deploy the evaluation tools, apply configurations from version-controlled templates, execute scans across thousands of endpoints concurrently, and ensure results are reliably delivered to a central repository. By integrating these powerful components, AAP provides a comprehensive, scalable, and secure solution for STIG evaluation, allowing teams to dramatically reduce labor, maintain consistent configurations, and achieve true enterprise-wide compliance. This approach not only automates the evaluation process but also lays the foundation for automated remediation with existing Ansible content.
In this webinar, our experts will cover:
- How to seamlessly integrate existing STIG tools with a central automation platform to orchestrate and manage security scans at scale.
- How to apply and enforce consistent configurations across your entire IT fleet using dynamic and ephemeral automation.
- How to turn an administrative burden into a repeatable, secure workflow that dramatically reduces labor and increases compliance visibility.
Join us to learn how to achieve true enterprise-wide STIG compliance and reduce your security posture risk through automation.
Live event date: Thursday, October 23, 2025 | 11 a.m. ET
On-demand event: Available for one year afterward
Forrest Holifield
Automation Specialist, Air Force & Space Force, Red Hat
Forrest is an Automation Specialist for Red Hat focused on helping the United States Air Force and Space Force with their IT automation challenges. Before joining Red Hat, he was an Automation Program Manager at DISA where he aggressively attacked technical debt while championing the agency's automation program. He now brings that expertise to Red Hat, helping organizations transition from manual and legacy tools to modern, automated methodologies.
Ajay Chenampara
Public Sector Automation GTM Leader, Red Hat
Ajay is an IT industry veteran with over 2 decades in this space. He is the Automation strategy leader for Red Hat's North America Public Sector. He is focused on helping customers achieve their business outcomes using Ansible for automating their Day0/1/2 challenges. Previously he was the global datacenter architect for a top 10 Fortune 500 enterprise, leading the network automation efforts there. He also worked for a community focused network automation startup, helping network engineers adopt DevOps tools and methodologies across the globe.
Lee Armbuster
Automation Specialist, Public Sector, Red Hat
Lee is an Automation Specialist supporting the U.S. Department of Defense. He joined the company in 2019 as a consultant, where he specialized in creating automation capabilities for highly-secure disconnected systems.
Today he helps his customers modernize and introduce automation capabilities into their environments, improving efficiency, increasing productivity, and controlling risk and cost.
