Case study
Automated Compliance Reporting for Aviation Security
How SquareShift built an automated compliance and reconciliation platform on Elastic Cloud Hosted, replacing manual spreadsheet audits for an aviation enterprise's 40,000-device security estate.
An international aviation enterprise operating a large-scale, multi-vendor security estate with roughly 40,000 device records.
Its compliance program spans multiple identities and, following this engagement, several subsidiary entities across the group.
Device records continuously validated against security coverage. Sync cadence keeping inventory and asset data aligned. Subsidiary entities onboarded without parallel infrastructure.
Key servicesHow SquareShift delivered it.
The challenge
An international aviation enterprise managed a large, multi-vendor security estate — roughly 40,000 device records — through disconnected tools for device, identity, and inventory tracking. With no single source of truth, the security team relied on manual exports and spreadsheets to compile compliance reports.
That process was error-prone and couldn’t scale as the group grew. Leadership had no unified view of security health, and every regulatory review meant reassembling records by hand.
What we delivered
SquareShift built an audit-defensible, automated compliance and reconciliation platform on Elastic Cloud Hosted, deployed in a regional cloud repository that met the client’s data-residency requirements. Compliance rules were embedded directly into the data layer, making the records themselves the audit artifact instead of a report assembled after the fact.
A 15-minute sync loop kept asset and inventory data continuously aligned, and a minimal-disruption tagging framework extended monitoring to four additional group subsidiaries without standing up parallel infrastructure for each one.
The payoff
Leadership now works from a single summary dashboard covering security health across the estate, with roughly 40,000 device records continuously validated against active security coverage. Reports are audit-ready on demand instead of reconstructed under deadline pressure.
The 15-minute sync cadence keeps inventory drift to a minimum, and the tagging framework let four subsidiary entities join monitoring with minimal disruption to existing operations — a pattern the group can repeat as it keeps expanding.
When compliance has to survive an audit, the trick isn't a prettier dashboard — it's making the underlying records themselves the unalterable source of truth.
Strategy & Decision Intelligence Practice Lead, SquareShift
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