Datadog

Set up Datadog for automated tests with TrustCloud

TrustCloud’s API-based integrations map seamlessly to your frameworks and controls to power automated evidence collection, continuous monitoring, and predictive risk analysis. Let’s explore how you can set up Datadog for automated tests.

By granting TrustCloud limited access to metadata through a service principal account, you can ensure that your systems remain compliant with your adopted controls. TrustCloud’s focus on trust, security, and simplifying compliance makes it a valuable asset in the GRC landscape.

Read our GRC Launchpad article: Integrations to learn more.

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Purpose

Once you set up your compliance program, TrustOps works to ensure that your systems remain compliant with your adopted controls. To do so, TrustCloud runs automated tests against systems in your product and business stack and verifies that they are properly configured.

This document outlines the steps you can take to grant TrustCloud access to retrieve a list of employees to use as evidence.

Instructions to grant TrustCloud limited access to Datadog

1. Log in to your Datadog instance as a user who has administrative privileges in your organization.
2. Hover over the User Icon and click on ‘Organization Settings’.
   
3. Click on ‘API Keys’.
   
4. Click on the ‘New Key’ button. Provide your key with a name and click on the “Create Key” button.
   
5. Click on the “Copy Key” button. Copy it to your clipboard, and paste somewhere to save for later.
   
6. Close the window.
7. Click on ‘Application Keys’ in the sidebar.
   
8. Click on the “New Key” button. Provide your key with a name, and click on the “Create Key” button.
   
9. Click on the “Copy Key”. Copy it to your clipboard and paste it somewhere to save it for later.
   
10. Input the API key and application key you created into TrustOps.

In conclusion, TrustCloud’s API-based integrations provide seamless mapping to frameworks and controls, enabling automated evidence collection, continuous monitoring, and predictive risk analysis. By setting up Datadog for automated tests and granting TrustCloud limited access to metadata, organizations can ensure compliance with adopted controls while benefiting from TrustCloud’s focus on trust, security, and simplifying compliance. With a comprehensive range of evidence collection integrations and the TrustOps program, TrustCloud becomes a valuable asset in the GRC landscape, helping organizations maintain compliance and properly configure their systems.