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Dinoct handles sensitive data and operates within a complex digital landscape, maintaining a robust security posture and adhering to stringent compliance standards (e.g., HIPAA, SOC 2,etc). Regular internal security audits are a cornerstone of Dinoct’s commitment to security and regulatory adherence.

Our security team struggled with time-consuming, error-prone manual assessments across diverse infrastructure. To boost efficiency and compliance, they created WorkOptix℠AI which automates vulnerability scans, compliance checks and reporting, streamlining compliance and reducing manual effort.

Challenge

Before implementing WorkOptix℠AI, Dinoct faced several significant obstacles when conducting security audits internally and for its clients which diverted strategic focus. Some of the challenges are:

• Disparate tools forced 5 hours of manual, error-prone audit work.
• Incomplete asset visibility from inconsistent, manual scanning across diverse environments.
• Manual audits meant a 12% false-positive rate, 8 lost engineer-hours and a dangerous rise in unaddressed vulnerabilities.
• Compliance checks were fragmented and manually performed across multiple frameworks like CIS and OWASP Top 10, leading to ongoing challenges.

Solution

How It Works

WorkOptix℠AI’s automated audit workflow follows a streamlined process:

• Trigger: Each quarter, the audit automatically triggers at 00:00 UTC on its first day.
• Asset Inventory Collection: Cloud asset metadata (EC2, RDS, IAM, S3, VPC) is retrieved across AWS accounts and stored centrally.
• Parallel Vulnerability Scans: Scans cover AWS accounts, servers, and external URLs, with all outputs standardized to JSON format.
• Intermediate Data Aggregation: The scan outputs are loaded, and the aggregation engine normalizes data for summary reporting.
• Report Generation: A preformatted Word template is populated with key insights, findings, and charts, then saved.
• Upload to Google Drive: The final report is uploaded to a structured, view-only Google Drive folder for client access.
• Stakeholder Notification: Report links are shared with relevant teams via email and Slack notifications.
• Post-Audit Cleanup: Temporary scan outputs are purged to control storage costs.

Benefits

Implementing WorkOptix℠AI delivered significant advantages to Dinoct Inc. and its clients:

• Boosted Efficiency: Audits now take 60% less time (from 5 to 2 hours), and reports are compiled 83% faster (from 1.5 hours to just 15 minutes).
• Reduced Human Effort: Now only one engineer is needed instead of four, cutting context switching by 87% with a single, streamlined workflow.
• Enhanced Coverage & Accuracy: Automated system boosts asset scan coverage by 30% to 100%, slashes false positives by 75% (from 12% to 3%), and increases compliance checks by a remarkable 140%.
• Consistency & Reliability: Repeatable processes and centralized archiving ensure consistent policy coverage and simplified audit history retrieval.
• Scalability & Future-Proofing: The modular architecture allows for easy extension and integration of new tools or checks.
• Cost Savings: Reduced labor costs saved approximately $2,500 per audit cycle. Faster scans also reduced runtime licensing fees and cloud compute charges.

Results