---
title: "Compliance"
description: "How Guardian assesses your CIs against policies and benchmarks."
product: "Guardian"
edition: "Essentials"
type: "overview"
url: "https://docs.cloudhouse.com/guardian/essentials/compliance/"
---
# Compliance

As well as drift, Guardian tells you whether your CIs meet the standards you hold them to. It assesses them against two kinds of checks, and reports the results.

| | Policies | Benchmarks |
|-|----------|------------|
| What they are | Custom checks for your own environment | Industry-standard compliance baselines, such as CIS Benchmarks |
| Assigned to | CI groups | CI groups |
| Assessed | On every scan | On the benchmark's own schedule |
| Find them in | **Policies** | **Benchmarks** |

The **Dashboard** shows a compliance score, and **Reports** › **Compliance** shows the detail across your estate.

- [*Reference* **Policies** Create custom policies and assign them.](https://docs.cloudhouse.com/guardian/essentials/compliance/policies/index.md)
- [*Reference* **Benchmarks** Assess CIs against industry baselines.](https://docs.cloudhouse.com/guardian/essentials/compliance/benchmarks/index.md)
- [*Reference* **Reports** Compliance across your estate.](https://docs.cloudhouse.com/guardian/essentials/compliance/reports/index.md)