Endpoint Hardening and CIS Benchmarks
Benchmark-aligned baselines with documented exceptions and drift monitoring. Delivered by DESSS with a documented 6-step workflow, named deliverables, and a 24-hour discovery response.
ENDPOINT SECURITY
What does DESSS deliver for Endpoint Hardening and CIS Benchmarks
DESSS delivers Endpoint Hardening and CIS Benchmarks on Endpoint & Email Security through the endpoint hardening and cis benchmarks rollout: estate and ownership assessment; baseline and compliance design; ring one pilot; application packaging and update rings; estate enrolment; compliance-gated access. Each step closes with named deliverables you sign off before the next begins.
THE WORKFLOW
6 steps, start to finish
Every engagement follows a documented sequence, so you always know which stage the work is in and what closes it.
- Estate and ownership assessment — Weeks 1–2
- Baseline and compliance design — Weeks 2–4
- Ring one pilot — Weeks 4–6
- Application packaging and update rings — Weeks 5–9
- Estate enrolment — Weeks 9–14
- Compliance-gated access — Weeks 13–16
WHAT YOU GET
Named deliverables, signed off
Each step closes with deliverables you review and approve before the next one begins — progress you can audit rather than a status colour on a slide.
- Device inventory
- OS version report
- Ownership model
- Baseline design
- Compliance policy
- Exception register
- Pilot results
- Conflict log
- Policy adjustments
- Packaged applications
HOW TO ENGAGE
Advice, delivery, or managed service
Engage DESSS at whatever depth the work needs — independent advice before budget is committed, full delivery against an agreed blueprint, or ongoing support from the team that built it.
Consulting & Advisory
Assessment, platform selection, business case, and roadmap — before you commit budget.
Implementation Services
Full delivery to an agreed blueprint, with weekly demos and named deliverables at every step.
Integration & Migration
Connecting and modernizing the systems the work depends on, with validated data and monitored interfaces.
Managed Support Services
Monitoring, incident handling, enhancements, and release management from the team that built it.
A typical DESSS Endpoint Hardening and CIS Benchmarks delivery runs 6 steps, with the final step reached around weeks 13–16. Complex integrations, multi-entity scope, or regulated environments extend that — the discovery session produces a dated plan for your case rather than an average.
Every step closes with named deliverables — Access gating, Baseline design, Compliance dashboard, Compliance policy, Conflict log, Device inventory, Enrolment waves, Exception register — so progress is visible, auditable, and reviewable rather than a status colour on a slide.
Yes. Integration with the systems your configuration hardening depends on is designed early and delivered with validation, monitoring, and error handling, so failures are visible and recoverable.
No. Endpoint Hardening and CIS Benchmarks is often delivered alongside the other Endpoint & Email Security products listed below, in a phased roadmap that avoids rebuilding earlier phases. DESSS sequences them so each phase stands on its own.
The consultants who implemented it. Managed support covers monitoring, incidents, enhancements, and release management under severity-based service levels.
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