# 1. About InSpec
- InSpec is an open-source, community-developed compliance validation framework
- Provides a mechanism for defining machine-readable compliance and security requirements
- Easy to create, validate, and read content
- Cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac)
- Agnostic to other DevOps tools and techniques
- Integrates into multiple CM tools
# 1.1. Orchestration, Configuration Management, Validation to Deployment
InSpec operates with most orchestration and CM tools found in the DevOps pipeline implementations
# 1.2. Automating Security Validation Using InSpec
# 1.3. Processing InSpec Results
