Compliance & Configuration Audit Services

What our configuration & compliance audit covers

Nessus Professional ships with audit files mapped to CIS Benchmarks and other secure-configuration baselines for major operating systems, databases, and network devices. We run credentialed configuration audits against these baselines, then manually triage results to separate genuine hardening gaps from environment-specific false positives before they reach your compliance team.

• CIS Benchmark audits — Windows Server, Linux distributions, and common network device configurations checked against CIS hardening baselines.
• PCI DSS-aligned vulnerability scanning — Internal vulnerability and configuration scanning aligned to PCI DSS requirements, supporting your QSA's assessment.
• Secure configuration baselining — Establish and monitor a hardened configuration baseline across your server fleet over time.
• Database & application config checks — Common misconfigurations in database engines and application servers that fall outside a standard vulnerability scan.
• Gap reporting mapped to controls — Findings mapped back to specific CIS control IDs or PCI DSS requirement numbers for direct use in your compliance documentation.

Why choose eNeoteric for compliance & configuration audits

• Control-mapped reporting — Findings tied directly to CIS control IDs or PCI DSS requirement numbers, ready to hand to your auditor.
• False-positive triage — Every automated finding is manually reviewed against your environment before it reaches the report.
• CERT-In empanelled — Our audit practice follows CERT-In guidelines for information security auditing of Indian organisations.
• Works alongside your existing programme — Findings feed directly into your ISO 27001 ISMS or SOC 2 control evidence, rather than sitting in a standalone report.
• Recurring or one-time — Run as an annual baseline or as a recurring quarterly control to track configuration drift.

Frequently asked questions

What is a CIS Benchmark and why does it matter?

CIS Benchmarks are consensus-based, vendor-neutral secure configuration guidelines for operating systems, databases, and network devices, published by the Center for Internet Security. Auditing against them catches insecure default settings — unnecessary services, weak password policies, excessive permissions — that a standard vulnerability scan (which looks for known CVEs) does not check for.

Is this the same as a PCI DSS ASV scan?

No. PCI DSS requires quarterly external vulnerability scans performed by a PCI SSC-Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV) — a formal, PCI-certified status. eNeoteric is not a PCI-approved ASV. What we provide is internal, PCI DSS-aligned vulnerability and configuration scanning using Nessus Professional to support your broader compliance programme and give your QSA supporting evidence — it complements, but does not replace, your mandatory quarterly ASV scan.

What compliance frameworks does this support?

Findings and reports are structured to support ISO 27001 Annex A control evidence, SOC 2 security criteria, and PCI DSS internal scanning requirements, alongside CERT-In and RBI/SEBI/IRDAI-aligned audit expectations for Indian organisations.

How often should we run a configuration audit?

Annually at minimum, aligned with your ISO 27001 or SOC 2 audit cycle. Organisations with frequent infrastructure changes typically run it quarterly to catch configuration drift before it becomes an audit finding.

Remediating what the audit finds

An audit produces findings; hardening closes them. ENCSE delivers the configuration remediation as executed change, not another report.

• Network Device Hardening
• Vulnerability Remediation
• Network Device Health Check
• Lifecycle Management