Host & Endpoint Hardening Review
Default configurations are convenient for attackers. We review your workstation and server builds against hardening benchmarks and cut the unnecessary services, weak settings and missing controls that make endpoints easy targets.
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What this means. An authorized Solvex administrator registered and approved this exact public identity. What it does not. Solvex has not inspected the account on the platform, and this is not the platform's own verification.
Solvex specialists never ask for your passwords, recovery phrases, one-time codes, or payments to a personal account. Work, scope and invoices are agreed in writing through the official channels on this site.
Signed authorization required. This engagement is performed only against systems you own or are contractually authorized to have tested, under an agreed scope. See the responsible testing policy.
What's covered
- Configuration review against CIS or vendor benchmarks
- Operating-system and service hardening assessment
- Local privilege, account and policy review
- Patch and update posture check
- Endpoint protection and logging validation
- Gold-image and baseline recommendations
What you receive
- Hardening review report with benchmark gaps
- Prioritised remediation guidance
- Recommended secure baseline / gold image
- Executive summary
- Optional revalidation
Evidence and reporting
How the work is kept honest- Evidence, frozen at issuanceFindings tie to something observed. When the report is issued, the evidence behind it is frozen in the same transaction and cannot be edited afterwards.
- A signed reportAn Ed25519 signature covers both the report content and the delivered file. Alter a byte of either and verification fails.
- Signed scope firstTesting starts only after written scope and signed authorization for systems you own or are entitled to have tested.
Anyone holding a Solvex report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents.
Our boundaries
What this engagement does not do, stated before it starts.
- Only systems you own or manage
- Assessed against a representative sample of builds
- Implementation handled by your team
- Point-in-time review
How this engagement runs
- 01
Intake
Tell us the system, the goal and the constraints. If the work is not a good fit, we say so before anyone is invoiced.
- 02
Scope and authorization
Written scope and signed authorization before anything is touched. Security testing runs only against systems you own or are contractually entitled to have tested.
- 03
Investigation or build
Specialists matched to the work. Findings are proven by hand — scanner output is a lead, never a finding.
- 04
Evidence
Every finding ties to something observed. When a report is issued, its evidence is frozen in the same transaction, so what backed the report cannot change afterwards.
- 05
Delivery
A signed report: an Ed25519 signature over both the content and the file, with a short verification reference you can read down a phone.
- 06
Verification and retest
Anyone holding the report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents. Fixes are retested as part of the engagement — “fixed” means we confirmed it.
Questions we are asked
- Which benchmarks do you use?
- Typically CIS Benchmarks and vendor hardening guides, tailored to your operating systems and role of each system so recommendations stay practical.
- What do you need from us?
- Access to representative builds (a sample workstation and server image) or their configuration, and details of your endpoint protection and patching approach.
- Will hardening break our applications?
- We prioritise changes by risk and flag any with compatibility impact, so you can roll out hardening safely and test before broad deployment.
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