Making Ardenmoor Insurance Group's endpoint hardening baseline defensible to its regulator after finding F-3 showed the board's 98 per cent compliant figure tested 40 of 212 settings and left out 1,900 of 14,600 devices the tooling could not see; the honest denominator, from 1,900 unseen devices to 144, with critical compliance at 95.8 per cent of 14,482; and the eight-layer defence stack — firmware and boot, OS configuration, identity and privilege, application control, attack surface, logging, drift detection, and evidence and exceptions — on which the settings with complete evidence in the Compliance Evidence Register climb from 18 to all 212.

CY-EXPERT-101Expert Level · Endpoint Security

Hardening Baseline Defensibility

An expert-level course on making an endpoint hardening baseline something an organisation can defend to a regulator or auditor: grounded in a recognised benchmark, tailored with recorded reasons, measured across the whole fleet every day, and honest about what it cannot see and what it has excepted. Build the defence stack - eight layers from firmware and boot at the foundation, through OS configuration, identity and privilege, application control, attack-surface reduction, logging and drift detection, to evidence and exceptions at the top - and assemble a compliance evidence register that someone else can re-perform.

18 hours8 chapters32 lessons225 activities8 labs

What you'll learn

Rebuild a compliance figure from its numerator, denominator, scope and date, reconcile the inventory with the tooling, and measure the boot layer with unseen devices counted.
Ground every baseline setting in a benchmark crosswalk, record every deviation with its reason, tier the baseline by role and measure effective configuration.
Name critical settings against criteria fixed in advance, measure identity and credential protection on the device, and replace annual sampling with daily measurement.
Move application control from audit to enforcement, close coverage gaps in hidden device populations, and report enforced, audited and absent honestly.

Price:৳12,000