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AEO Compliance Tracking Guide

Overview

The Compliance page tracks AEO security posture metrics for the STEAM and ACCESS-ENG teams. It processes weekly xlsx compliance reports, shows per-metric health cards, and tracks non-compliant devices down to the individual hostname level.

Teams Tracked

Only two teams are monitored:

  • STEAM (NTS-AEO-STEAM)
  • ACCESS-ENG (NTS-AEO-ACCESS-ENG)

Uploading a Compliance Report

Prerequisites

  • You must have editor or admin access
  • The report must be an .xlsx file (the standard NTS_AEO compliance export)

Upload Process

  1. Navigate to the Compliance page
  2. Click the Upload Report button
  3. Drag and drop the xlsx file or click to browse
  4. The system parses the spreadsheet using a Python backend script and shows a preview:
    • New items: Devices/metrics appearing for the first time
    • Recurring items: Devices/metrics that were already non-compliant
    • Resolved items: Previously non-compliant items no longer in the report
  5. Review the diff summary
  6. Click Commit to save the data

The upload is a two-step process (preview then commit) so you can verify the data before it's written to the database.

Health Cards

After uploading, the page displays metric health cards for each team. Each card shows:

  • Metric ID — the compliance metric identifier
  • Category — the metric category (Vulnerability Management, Access & MFA, Logging & Monitoring, etc.)
  • Compliance % — current compliance percentage
  • Target — the required target percentage
  • Status — color-coded:
    • Green: Meets/Exceeds Target
    • Amber: Within 15% of Target
    • Red: Below 15% of Target

Click a health card to filter the device list to that specific metric.

Metric Categories

Category Color
Vulnerability Management Red
Access & MFA Amber
Logging & Monitoring Purple
End-of-Life OS Orange
Decommissioned Assets Slate
Asset Data Quality Slate
Application Security Blue
Disaster Recovery Teal
Endpoint Protection Orange

Device-Level Tracking

Below the health cards, the device list shows non-compliant devices grouped by hostname. Each device entry shows:

  • Hostname and IP address
  • Device type and team assignment
  • Failing metrics with first-seen and last-seen dates
  • Seen count (how many consecutive reports the device has been non-compliant)

Device Detail Panel

Click a device to open the detail panel showing:

  • All metrics the device is failing
  • Upload history (when the device first appeared, when it was last seen)
  • Per-metric notes with timestamps

Adding Notes

You can add notes to one or more metrics on a device at once:

  1. Open the device detail panel
  2. Select the metrics the note applies to using the chip selector — click individual metric chips to toggle them, or use Select All / Deselect All for bulk selection
  3. Type your note and click send
  4. Notes are timestamped and attributed to the logged-in user

When a note is submitted for multiple metrics, it appears as a single grouped entry in the notes history with all associated metric chips displayed together. Notes are useful for tracking remediation progress, vendor ticket numbers, or explaining why a device is non-compliant.

Data Flow

  1. Weekly xlsx report is uploaded through the dashboard
  2. Python parser extracts team metrics and non-compliant devices
  3. Diff is computed against existing data (new/recurring/resolved)
  4. On commit: new items are inserted, recurring items have their seen_count incremented, resolved items are marked with resolved_on date
  5. Health cards and device lists update automatically