Build Review
Production servers, desktop images, and VM templates carry the configuration weaknesses you fix later. Pentiq reviews your gold builds against CIS, DISA STIG, and vendor hardening guides - and gives your CI/CD pipeline a compliance artefact that travels with every deployment.
What we test
Catch hardening problems before they ship.
Build manifests, configuration scripts, and package inventories. Services and protocols are minimised, default accounts disabled, patch levels verified, and least-privilege enforced across file-system and registry objects. Delta analysis surfaces drift between what's intended and what's deployed.
Why it matters
The pressure this service answers.
A hardened build saves three rounds of remediation. Shifting left on configuration is the cheapest patching you'll ever do - and the auditor evidence comes for free.
Testing activities
Manual, reproducible, peer-reviewed.
Every engagement is scoped through a formal Rules of Engagement, delivered by an in-house Pentiq consultant, peer-reviewed by a senior tester, and risk-rated using CVSS 4.0 where applicable.
- Secure collection of build manifests and configuration artefacts
- Baseline comparison against CIS, DISA STIG, and vendor hardening guides
- Patch and package-integrity verification
- Service and protocol minimisation
- Least-privilege enforcement across file-system and registry objects
- Delta analysis, remediation tasks, and compliance artefacts for CI/CD pipelines
Methodologies & frameworks
The standards behind every report.
Every report aligns to the methodologies and frameworks your assessors, customers, and insurers already recognise, so findings are defensible, reproducible, and easy to validate.
- CREST Infrastructure methodology
- CIS Benchmarks and DISA STIGs
- Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit and Red Hat Security Guides
- NIST SP 800-53 CM family and NIST SP 800-190
Outcomes
What you walk away with.
- Shifts security left, reducing costly post-deployment remediation
- Auditable evidence of secure-build processes for regulators and auditors
- Consistency across cloud, on-premises, and containerised workloads
- Accelerates deployment pipelines through automated compliance artefacts
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Talk to Pentiq about build review.
Most enquiries get a same working day response from a Pentiq consultant. We'll scope honestly and tell you when an alternative service is the right answer.