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Endpoint Security Assessment

A review of device-level controls, hardening, and detection coverage across laptops, servers, and workstations — the endpoints where attacks most often land and where good defaults matter most.

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Overview

The last line before compromise

Endpoints — laptops, workstations, and servers — are where phishing links get clicked and malware first executes, which makes their configuration a high-leverage security control. An endpoint security assessment reviews how well your devices are hardened and how much visibility you have when something goes wrong. We look at baseline configuration and hardening against recognised benchmarks (such as CIS), disk encryption, patch and update posture, local administrative-rights hygiene, and the coverage and tuning of endpoint detection and response (EDR) or antivirus tooling. The goal is twofold: reduce the chance an endpoint is compromised in the first place, and ensure that if one is, your team can detect and respond quickly. You receive a gap analysis against a sensible hardening baseline and a prioritised set of configuration and detection improvements.

What’s included

  • Hardening review against recognised benchmarks (e.g. CIS)
  • Disk encryption and patch posture checks
  • Local admin-rights and privilege hygiene review
  • EDR / antivirus coverage and tuning assessment
  • Prioritised gap analysis and remediation plan
Who it's for

Who this baseline is built for

  • Growing companies whose laptop fleet outgrew ad-hoc setup and now needs a defensible, documented hardening baseline.
  • IT and security leads who bought an EDR platform but have never verified its coverage, tuning or alert quality.
  • Remote and hybrid organisations where devices sit outside the office network and endpoint controls carry most of the weight.
  • Teams facing a customer security review, cyber-insurance questionnaire or ISO 27001 audit that asks how endpoints are controlled.
When you need it

Reasons to check the fleet now

  • Headcount grew quickly, laptops were issued without a consistent build, and nobody can say which devices are encrypted or patched.
  • A phishing incident reached an endpoint and the team wants to know why detection was late and what hardening would have blocked it.
  • An EDR agent is deployed but running largely in default configuration, with nobody triaging or tuning its alerts.
  • A customer or insurer asks for evidence of endpoint hardening, disk encryption and local administrator control across the fleet.
  • You are consolidating from several device-management tools and want a baseline before and after the migration.
Deliverables

What the review leaves you with

Every engagement ends with something your team can act on — not a slide deck.

  • A gap analysis of current endpoint configuration against a recognised hardening baseline such as CIS Benchmarks.
  • A prioritised remediation plan separating quick configuration wins from work needing change control.
  • An EDR coverage and tuning review, including detection gaps mapped to relevant MITRE ATT&CK techniques.
  • A recommended hardening baseline you can apply through your existing device-management tooling.
  • A short summary of endpoint risk written for management and audit evidence.
How it works

How we assess your devices

The same predictable shape whether the work is an assessment or a build, so you always know what happens next.

  1. 1

    Discover

    We start by understanding your systems, goals, and constraints — scope, risk tolerance, and what success looks like — so the work is aimed at your actual problem, not a generic template.

  2. 2

    Assess or build

    For security work, we test and analyse against recognised standards. For development, we build in small, reviewable increments. Either way, you see progress early and can change direction.

  3. 3

    Report or ship

    You get clear, prioritised deliverables — a report your engineers can act on, or working software shipped to your environment — with the context to understand what was done and why.

  4. 4

    Support

    We stay available after delivery: retesting fixes, iterating on the product, and answering the questions that come up once real users and real traffic arrive.

FAQ

Endpoint Security — common questions

Do you need to install anything on our machines?

Usually no. Most of an endpoint security assessment runs from configuration exports, device-management policy reviews and read-only checks on a representative sample of devices. Where a deeper look is useful we run scripted, read-only collection scripts you can inspect before approving. Anything more intrusive, such as simulating attack techniques to test detection, happens only on machines you nominate and with your written go-ahead.

How many devices do you need to look at?

We assess a representative sample rather than every device, because endpoint posture is driven by policy rather than by individual machines. We typically sample across operating systems, user roles and build ages so we can tell a policy weakness from a one-off drift. Fleet-wide questions such as encryption and patch coverage come from your management console rather than device-by-device inspection, so fleet size affects effort far less than fleet diversity does.

We already run an EDR product. Is this still worth doing?

Yes, and it is often where the assessment finds most value. Buying EDR is not the same as having detection: agents go uninstalled on part of the fleet, policies stay in audit-only mode, exclusions accumulate, and alerts fire into a channel nobody watches. We review deployment coverage, policy strength and alert handling, and map your detection against relevant MITRE ATT&CK techniques so you can see what would genuinely be caught.

Does this cover servers as well as laptops?

Yes, if you want it to. Servers and workstations both count as endpoints, and both benefit from hardening review, though the baselines differ. We agree scope up front: some organisations include cloud server instances, others keep the engagement to user devices and handle servers within a network security assessment. Tell us where your risk sits and we will shape coverage around it.
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An EDR agent isn't the same as detection.

Get a gap analysis of your device hardening against CIS Benchmarks, plus an EDR coverage review mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, with a prioritised fix list.

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