Managing Compliance Standards

Last updated: October 22, 2026

On the Compliance Standards page, you can see all the compliance standards you have permission to view. On this page, you can perform a number of actions to manage and modify your compliance standards.

Editing a Compliance Standard

  1. Navigate to Compliance > All Compliance Standards.

  2. Click the ellipsis menu next to the standard and select Edit standard.

  3. For information about each field, see Add a Compliance Standard. Scheduled compliance checks are canceled if they are removed from all compliance standards before their start time.

  4. Click Update Compliance Standard.

Note: Standards provided and updated by Kion (system-managed standards) can't be edited. Clone the standard to customize it.

Cloning a Compliance Standard

  1. Navigate to Compliance > All Compliance Standards.

  2. Click the ellipsis menu next to the standard, and select Clone.

  3. The new standard will have the same configurations as the standard it was cloned from. You can make adjustments to owners and checks before creation is complete.

  4. Click Clone Compliance Standard.

Adding Checks to Compliance Standards

Compliance checks are applied to resources by compliance standards. You can add compliance checks to a standard when the standard is created, by editing the standard, or from the standard's details page.

To add a check to a standard:

  1. Navigate to Compliance > All Compliance Standards.

  2. Click the name of the standard you want to add a check to.

  3. Select the Compliance Checks tab.

  4. Click Add.

  5. Select Create New to create a new check and automatically add it to the standard, or Apply Existing to add an existing check.

Distributing Compliance Standards

Compliance standards are applied to resources by cloud rules.