Introducing Rampart: Compliance Evidence Made Simple

Compliance isn't about architecture. It's about evidence. The difference between passing an audit and failing one rarely comes down to whether you had the right controls in place. It comes down to whether you can prove it.

That's the insight behind Rampart, a compliance evidence platform that automatically captures and documents security audit trails from your existing infrastructure. Rather than requiring you to overhaul your systems, Rampart operates as a lightweight observability layer that monitors your servers and generates compliance-ready evidence in real time.

Rampart deploys a lightweight agent to your servers that continuously monitors for compliance-relevant events. Every SSH login, container deployment, configuration change, and security update is captured, timestamped, and stored in an immutable audit trail.

The platform maps these events directly to compliance control requirements. When you need to demonstrate SOC 2 CC6.1 access controls or NIST 800-171 configuration management, Rampart shows exactly which events satisfy which requirements, with timestamps and evidence.

Rampart currently supports SOC 2 Type II with full coverage of CC4, CC6, CC7, and CC8 controls. NIST 800-171 and HIPAA Security Rule mappings are available, with FedRAMP and NIST 800-53 support planned for organizations requiring federal compliance.

For agencies and contractors operating under multiple frameworks, Rampart provides a unified view of compliance posture across all applicable standards.

The Rampart dashboard provides a real-time health score across three dimensions: perimeter security, control compliance, and system availability. Teams can see at a glance which controls have evidence, which have gaps, and what needs attention.

When audit time comes, generating a report takes one click. The output is a formatted PDF with control-by-control evidence, event counts, accepted risks with approvals, and detailed appendices. Ready to hand to auditors without modification.

Tesseract believes in transparency. The Rampart agent that runs on your servers is fully open source under the Apache 2.0 license. You can inspect every line of code, understand exactly what data is being collected, and verify that nothing unexpected is happening on your infrastructure.

Open sourcing the agent isn't just about trust. It's about giving teams the ability to audit the auditor. When you're deploying compliance tooling to production systems, you should know precisely what it does.

View the Rampart Agent on GitHub →