US Patent 10432669 Security appliance to monitor networked computing environment

A system and method to evaluate a software defined infrastructure is disclosed. A security appliance is used to evaluate the software defined infrastructure. The security appliance includes a data ingestion and query engine. The data ingestion and query engine is configured to retrieve configuration and operational information associated with the software defined infrastructure, extract selective information from the retrieved configuration and operational information, and store extracted selective information in a plurality of data store. A policy compliance engine is configured to evaluate selectively stored information for compliance to a policy and generate a report based on the evaluation.