Embodiments of the present invention provide for a method, system, and apparatus for creating a policy compliant environment on a computer. In an embodiment of the invention, an encrypted file can be loaded into memory of a computing. The encrypted file can define a security policy for the computing device. The method can further include validating the encrypted file to ensure an authenticity of the encrypted file and updating the security policy of a target computing device in response to a successful validation of the encrypted file according to the validated encrypted file.