Managing configuration compliance and security best practices often requires navigating multiple, siloed settings pages, leading to inconsistent enforcement and complex exception handling. Strata Cloud Manager now unifies these critical capabilities into Security Posture Settings, consolidating security check functionality previously split across AIOps and Cloud Manager pages. This unification streamlines your security workflow, allowing you to manage both predefined best practice checks (aligned with industry standards like CIS and NIST) and custom organizational checks from a single centralized location. This feature enhances policy granularity by offering a centralized Check Exception capability, allowing you to restrict where checks apply to your deployment rather than simply enabling or disabling them globally. Furthermore, security checks raise an Alert (default) for a failed check, or Block a configuration with failing checks from being pushed out to your deployment. security checks provide immediate, field-level feedback during policy creation, empowering you to address configuration deviations instantly and ensure alignment with best practices before any policy deployment.