Gardience

Supported Windows + Linux fleet management
Capability Statement
UEI: Y5LBHH9WJ399  ·  CAGE: 22VQ0
SAM registered, active through July 2027

Gardience is a supported, hardened management console, built on the open-source Salt project, that manages Windows and Linux servers from one place: patch and compliance reporting across both operating systems, directory single sign-on with role-based access control, a tamper-evident audit log, and a CVE-fix service-level agreement. It runs on-premises, in the cloud, hybrid, or air-gapped. Gardience delivers it and the DevSecOps engineering around it, with cleared people.

Core Competencies

  • Mixed-fleet management: configuration management, patching, and compliance for Windows and Linux on open-source Salt, in one supported console.
  • Patch & compliance reporting: fleet-wide Windows Update and Linux package status, a STIG/CIS-aligned baseline with CSV evidence exports, continuous audit logging.
  • Secure deployment: hardened, air-gapped, STIG-, and CMMC-aware installations with directory SSO and RBAC.
  • DevSecOps & platform engineering: Kubernetes / AKS, infrastructure-as-code, automated and compliant platform deployments, compliance-as-code toward continuous ATO.
  • Vulnerability response: tracked, pinned, tested software releases with a defined CVE-remediation SLA; signed releases with an SBOM for every image.
  • Governed AI operations: a built-in assistant turns plain English into the exact Salt command, runbook, or state; nothing runs until a person approves it, under two-person rules and a tamper-evident audit. Runs on the customer's own model, including self-hosted inside an air-gapped enclave.

Differentiators

  • The supported answer to the Windows gap SUSE Multi-Linux Manager and Uyuni leave open. Uyuni closed its own Windows-support request as "not planned."
  • Cleared personnel: active TS/SCI clearance; commissioned Cyber Warfare officer, Oklahoma Army National Guard.
  • Open source, no lock-in: flat per-fleet pricing, 92% below Ansible Automation Platform Premium list price at 1,000 servers, with no proprietary agent tax.
  • One tool, both OSes, anywhere: cloud, on-premises, hybrid, or fully air-gapped.
  • Proven at scale: 1,020 Windows and Linux servers patched in one two-person-approved run in 13 minutes, every machine's result in the audit log with a signed evidence pack; a simulated 10,000-machine scale test on every release.
  • Small, direct, accountable: a named engineer and an SLA, not a ticket queue.

Company Snapshot

Legal name: Bouziden Management LLC
Location: Norman, Oklahoma
UEI: Y5LBHH9WJ399
CAGE: 22VQ0
Business size: Small business
Set-aside standing: small business
SAM.gov: Registered, active (All Awards) through 2027-07-28
Contact: George Bouziden, Principal
NAICS: 541512 Computer Systems Design 541511 Custom Programming 541513 Computer Facilities Mgmt 541519 Other IT Services 541715 R&D (cyber) PSC: D310DA10

Key Personnel

George Bouziden, Principal & Lead Engineer. DevSecOps / platform engineer. Active TS/SCI clearance. Commissioned Cyber Warfare Captain, Oklahoma Army National Guard. Builds and operates the Gardience platform; specializes in Kubernetes/AKS, infrastructure-as-code, and automated, compliant platform delivery.

Ideal Engagements

  • Regulated or classified estates running Salt / Uyuni / SUSE Manager for Linux that must also manage and report on Windows.
  • Supported, air-gapped fleet management inside a STIG or CMMC boundary.
  • DevSecOps / platform-engineering support and compliance-as-code.
Gardience is built on the open-source Salt project (Apache 2.0); open-source components keep their own licenses. Salt and SUSE are trademarks of their respective owners; Gardience (Bouziden Management LLC) is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by them.