Device Configuration
Reviews
Systematic hardening assessment of network devices, servers, and endpoints against established security best practices (including CIS Benchmarks and vendor security guides) — eliminating dangerous defaults before they become incidents.
Misconfigured systems are one of the most preventable causes of security incidents. Default credentials, unnecessary services, weak encryption settings, and insecure protocols persist across even well-managed environments — often because no one has systematically reviewed them against a current hardening baseline.
Our device configuration reviews provide a structured, evidence-based assessment of your device hardening posture, benchmarked at minimum against CIS Benchmarks (Level 1 and Level 2), DISA STIGs, NCSC guidance, and vendor-specific hardening guides.
We prioritise findings by real-world exploitability — not just compliance status. The configurations most likely to be targeted by an attacker are flagged first, with specific, actionable remediation steps and automation scripts to accelerate fixing.
Scope Definition & Baseline Selection
Agreement on device types, platforms, and applicable benchmark levels. We select the appropriate baselines for your environment — enterprise, cloud-native, or regulated industry variants — and tailor them to your operational constraints.
Configuration Data Collection
Secure extraction of running configurations, policy settings, service states, and hardening parameters from in-scope devices via SSH, WinRM, or provided configuration exports. No agent installation required for most platforms.
Automated Benchmark Analysis
Systematic comparison of extracted configurations against selected benchmarks using validated tooling. Each control is assessed as pass, fail, or not applicable — with contextual notes on applicability to your specific environment.
Manual Review & Contextualisation
Expert manual review of automated findings to identify false positives, contextualise risk based on network position and data sensitivity, and identify configuration issues not covered by standard benchmarks.
Risk Prioritisation
Findings prioritised by exploitability and business impact — not compliance severity alone. We identify the configurations most likely to be exploited by an attacker and flag them for immediate remediation.
Remediation Guidance & Automation
Platform-specific remediation scripts, Group Policy templates, Ansible playbooks, and configuration snippets provided alongside the report — enabling your operations team to implement fixes efficiently at scale.
We treat configuration reviews as a risk exercise, not a compliance tick-box. Our operators apply attacker context to every finding — identifying which misconfigurations would be most valuable to an adversary who has gained initial access.
We provide automation alongside every report. Group Policy templates, Ansible playbooks, and shell scripts mean your operations teams can remediate at scale without spending hours researching each individual fix.