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# Manage compliance assessment profiles

Automate recurring compliance audits for your IaC repositories and CI/CD assets by managing Compliance Assessment Profiles through Terraform. As new Asset Groups are provisioned, Terraform automatically schedules audits and configures report distribution.

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### Note

For a complete list of supported IaC and CI/CD compliance standards, as well as rule mapping logic and available scan types, refer to [Compliance for Cortex Cloud Application Security](/application-security/application-security-posture-management-aspm/compliance-for-cortex-cloud-application-security.md).
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### Prerequisite

You must have an existing Asset Group ID (representing your IaC repos or CI/CD pipelines) and the ID of the Compliance Standard you wish to assess against.

### Configuration

Use the `cortexcloud_compliance_assessment_profile` resource to define the target standard, the assets to scan, and the automated reporting schedule using standard Cron syntax.

```terraform
 # Compliance assessment profile for IaC
resource "cortexcloud_compliance_assessment_profile" "monthly_iac_compliance" {
  name             = "Monthly IaC Compliance Check"
  standard_id      = cortexcloud_compliance_standard.custom_framework.id
  asset_group_id   = 1
  description      = "Monthly compliance assessment for IaC repositories"
  report_type      = "PDF"
  report_targets   = ["security@example.com"]
  report_frequency = "0 12 1 * *" # First day of month at 12:00
}
```

For compliance schema details, refer to [Compliance assessment profile schema](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/PaloAltoNetworks/cortexcloud/latest/docs/resources/compliance_assessment_profile).

For more information on Compliance, refer to [Compliance for Cortex Cloud Application Security](/application-security/application-security-posture-management-aspm/compliance-for-cortex-cloud-application-security.md).


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