Managed Infrastructure & Compliance Engineering

Infrastructure you own.
Evidence you can prove.

DATAROSS designs, builds, and operates secure infrastructure for organizations in regulated space — virtualization, encrypted networking, CMMC Level 2 compliance engineering, and automation where every action is authorized, logged, and attributable.

Aligned to NIST SP 800-171 · Built for the DoD supply chain · U.S.-based, remote-first
WANInternet EdgeWAF · TLS 1.3 Reverse Proxycert automation ProxmoxVE clusterVMs · snapshots Cloud nodesDigitalOceanLinode WIREGUARD MESH Audit trailevery action
0NIST SP 800-171 controls mapped & operated
TLS 1.3end-to-end transport — zero plaintext hops
T1–T4tiered change authorization on every operation
24/7monitoring, alerting & response
Cause → effect

Same hardware. Different truth.

“Managed” isn’t a logo on an invoice — it’s a set of mechanisms. Flip the switch and watch what actually changes when the same four hosts come under governance.

app-01 no backups · config drift backups verified nightly db-01 shared credentials tiered access · rotated edge-01 silent changes every change announced sw-core “who touched this?” named session, always AUDIT TRAIL: ? reconstruction by memory · hours to answer “what changed?” AUDIT TRAIL: every command, timestamped, attributed “what changed?” answered in seconds — from the log, not from memory
“What changed last Tuesday?”Nobody knows. Somebody guesses.
“A bad change just shipped.”Rebuild it from scratch — and hope.
What we run

Six disciplines. One accountable operator.

Every engagement is delivered against the same standard we hold our own platform to: verify before claiming, back up before modifying, and leave an audit trail behind every change.

Managed Virtualization & Hybrid Cloud

Proxmox VE clusters on owned hardware, extended with cloud nodes where they earn their keep — one encrypted fabric, one inventory, one operator.

  • Cluster design, live migration, HA & capacity planning
  • Snapshot & backup regimes with tested restores
  • DigitalOcean / Linode hybrid integration

Secure Networking

Encrypted overlays and least-privilege segmentation, engineered on hardware fleets that mix generations without mixing trust.

  • WireGuard mesh & VPN architecture
  • Dell switch estates (OS6 / OS9 / OS10) & VLAN policy
  • RADIUS / SSO with per-tier privilege mapping

CMMC Level 2 / NIST 800-171

Compliance engineered into the systems themselves — not stapled on as paperwork. Built for organizations handling CUI in the DoD supply chain.

  • Gap assessment across all 110 controls
  • SSP & POA&M authorship, SPRS scoring support
  • GCC High migration & CUI enclave design

Out-of-Band & Fleet Management

When the OS is down, the lights-out path is the only path. We bring server fleets under managed OOB control before the bad day, not during it.

  • iDRAC estate inventory, baselines & credential rotation
  • Firmware lifecycle across mixed generations
  • Console rescue paths & recovery runbooks

Automation & AI-Assisted Operations

Automation that answers to a human. Agents work inside registered sessions with tiered authorization — nothing executes anonymously, ever.

  • TOTP-gated authorization tiers (read-only → architect)
  • Immutable session & command audit logs
  • Self-hosted models where data can't leave

Hosting, Monitoring & Continuity

Hardened application hosting with the boring parts done relentlessly: certificates that renew, backups that restore, alerts that reach a human.

  • Hardened Nginx edge & certificate automation
  • PostgreSQL operations, Node / Python runtimes
  • Uptime monitoring with multi-channel alerting
The reference platform

We sell what we run.

This is the architecture DATAROSS operates every day — the same design pattern we deploy for clients. Traffic enters through a hardened edge, crosses an encrypted mesh, and lands on owned compute. A governance rail watches everything.

01 · EDGE 02 · INGRESS 03 · ENCRYPTED MESH 04 · CORE SERVICES GOVERNANCE RAIL Cloudflare Edge WAF · DDoS absorption · TLS 1.3 termination · DNS Reverse Proxy Layer host routing · automated certificates · header policy API-MANAGED · NO HAND EDITS WIREGUARD ENCRYPTED OVERLAY Proxmox VE Cluster VMs · containers · snapshots · HA Cloud Nodes DigitalOcean · Linode · edge relays DNS filtering network-wide Monitoring uptime · alerting PostgreSQL managed data App runtimes Node · Python Session registry every operation has an owner Tiered authorization TOTP-gated · T1 read → T4 architect Immutable audit log command-level · session-tagged Change notification SMS · email · chat — per change Backup-before-modify standing rule on production
LIVE FLOW Request path — hardened edge to owned compute Encrypted east–west traffic (WireGuard) Governance — authorization, audit, notification
How an engagement runs

Begin → middle → end. Always visible.

You should never have to ask where a project stands. Every DATAROSS engagement moves along a single, legible line — and you can see exactly which node we're on at any moment.

01

Assess

Inventory what exists. Risk, gaps, and the honest current state — verified, not assumed.

02

Architect

Design the target and draw it. Every plan ships as a diagram before it ships as a change.

03

Implement

Backup before modify. Complete deployments, verified byte-for-byte — never blind patches.

04

Operate

Monitoring, patching, capacity, and response — with alerts that reach a human who can act.

05

Prove

Evidence on demand: audit exports, change records, and review-ready documentation.

CAUSE → EFFECT

Click any node above to see what the step buys you — and what skipping it costs.

The standard

Ten words we’re prepared to prove.

Anyone can put these words on a website. Each card flips to the specific mechanism that enforces it — because a value without a mechanism is a slogan.

01 / 10TRUTHhover / tap → the mechanism
THE MECHANISM

If we didn’t see the output, it didn’t happen. Every claim traces to a captured result.

02 / 10EVIDENCEhover / tap → the mechanism
THE MECHANISM

Session logs, checksums, timestamps — exportable on request, not anecdotal.

03 / 10PROOFhover / tap → the mechanism
THE MECHANISM

Deployments are verified byte-for-byte before they’re called done.

04 / 10HONESTYhover / tap → the mechanism
THE MECHANISM

We name our limits: no certifications we can’t issue, no uptime we can’t defend.

05 / 10RELIABILITYhover / tap → the mechanism
THE MECHANISM

Backup-before-modify is a standing rule, not a habit. Alerts page a human.

06 / 10CAPABILITYhover / tap → the mechanism
THE MECHANISM

Mixed-generation fleets, hybrid clouds, CUI enclaves — engineered, not improvised.

07 / 10CONSISTENCYhover / tap → the mechanism
THE MECHANISM

One process for every change. A DNS record and a firewall get the same rigor.

08 / 10ADAPTABILITYhover / tap → the mechanism
THE MECHANISM

OS6 → OS10, iDRAC7 → 9, on-prem → GCC High. We meet the estate where it is.

09 / 10SCALABILITYhover / tap → the mechanism
THE MECHANISM

Hosts multiply; the process doesn’t. One rail governs five nodes or five hundred.

10 / 10CONTINUITYhover / tap → the mechanism
THE MECHANISM

Every task records were / are / going. Nothing lives in one person’s head.

Scale without ceremony

Hosts under management: 12 — drag it.

Twelve hosts. One way to change them.

CONSTANT 1 process · 1 audit trail · 1 authorization gate
— regardless of fleet size —
CMMC Level 2 · NIST SP 800-171

Compliance as an engineering outcome.

If your contracts touch Controlled Unclassified Information, CMMC Level 2 is the gate. We take defense-supply-chain organizations through it as an infrastructure project — because that's what it actually is.

1

Gap assessment

All 110 NIST SP 800-171 controls scored against your real environment — what passes, what fails, what's not applicable and why.

2

SSP & POA&M authorship

A System Security Plan that describes systems that actually exist, and a Plan of Action with owners and dates — not shelf-ware.

3

Control implementation

The engineering: enclave boundaries, access control, logging, FIPS-validated encryption paths, media and maintenance policy made real.

4

SPRS scoring & submission

A defensible self-assessment score submitted to SPRS — with the evidence chain to stand behind every point of it.

5

Continuous evidence

Compliance decays without operations. Ongoing control monitoring keeps the score true and the next assessment boring.

Featured GCC High migrations

When CUI lives in email and files, commercial Microsoft 365 isn't the right container. We plan and execute migrations into Microsoft GCC High — tenant design, data movement, mail cutover, and the compliance mapping that justifies it.

Straight answers about scope

DATAROSS implements and operates to NIST SP 800-171 and prepares organizations for CMMC Level 2 assessment — including self-assessment and SPRS support. We tell you what a C3PAO will actually look at, and we don't sell certifications we can't issue. That honesty is the point.

Control families we implement & operate
AC · Access ControlAU · AuditCM · Config MgmtIA · IdentificationIR · Incident RespMA · MaintenanceMP · MediaPE · PhysicalPS · PersonnelRA · RiskCA · AssessmentSC · Comms ProtectionSI · System IntegrityAT · Awareness
The differentiator

Automation with a paper trail.

Most shops either fear automation or trust it blindly. We built a third option: agents and scripts operate inside registered sessions, gated by human-held authorization tiers, with every command logged and every change announced. Speed of automation, accountability of a named engineer.

Operator human · holds TOTP Session gate verifies · assigns tier Agent / script works within tier Infrastructure backup → change → verify Audit log immutable record TOTP TIER EXEC LOG CHANGE SUMMARY → SMS · EMAIL · CHAT
T1 · OBSERVER
Read-only

Status queries and diagnostics. Can look, cannot touch.

T2 · OPERATOR
Standard changes

File deployments and routine operations within policy.

T3 · ENGINEER
Service control

Restarts, fleet commands, and configuration changes.

T4 · ARCHITECT
Destructive ops

Credential rotation and firewall changes — highest human gate.

Borrowed from our own runbook

Anatomy of a change.

This is the actual lifecycle every DATAROSS change follows — sanitized, but not simplified. Watch it run, then try the authorization gate yourself.

dataross · change session (sanitized)
REQUEST: rotate credentials · core-firewall
— select an authority tier to run the request —
Same request. Different authority. Both outcomes land in the log — denials are evidence too. Authority is granted per action and expires in seconds.
Selected work

Recent engineering, anonymized where it should be.

Fleet operations · defense sector

Out-of-band rescue of a mixed-generation server estate

Dozens of iDRAC controllers across three hardware generations brought under inventory, managed credentials, and firmware baselines — including recovery paths for units whose management firmware predated modern tooling.

Network identity

RADIUS SSO across a mixed Dell switch estate

One identity source across OS6, OS9, and OS10 switch generations — with per-tier privilege mapping engineered around each platform's quirks, verified live on distribution and lab fabric.

Product · security engineering

Zero-knowledge file transfer

A public transfer tool where the relay mathematically cannot read the payload: ECDH key exchange between devices, AES-256-GCM end-to-end, and a human-verifiable image check that catches interception.

timedbox.app
Compliance · CUI workflows

GCC High collaboration migration

Planning and execution moving CUI-bearing email and file workflows into Microsoft GCC High — tenant architecture, cutover sequencing, and the NIST 800-171 mapping that makes the move defensible.

Compliance practice → guardnix.com
In production

The stack we operate — chosen for longevity, not fashion.

Every icon below is a tool running in the DATAROSS reference platform today. No aspirational logos.

Proxmox VEProxmox VEvirtualization
WireGuardWireGuardencrypted mesh
DebianDebianbase OS
CloudflareCloudflareedge & DNS
NginxNginxreverse proxy
iptablesiptableshost firewall
Dell EMCDell EMCswitching & OOB
DigitalOceanDigitalOceancloud nodes
LinodeLinodecloud nodes
DockerDockercontainers
Pi-holePi-holeDNS filtering
Uptime KumaUptime Kumamonitoring
OpenSSLOpenSSLcrypto tooling
Let's EncryptLet's Encryptcertificates

Tell us what you're running.

A short conversation is enough to tell whether we're the right operator for it — and if we're not, we'll say so and point you somewhere better.

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v5 · Jul 2026