Doing a simple audit
Essential Eight audits shouldn’t be complicated and lengthy. This tutorial demonstrates the straightforward steps to perform an organisational audit from a single computer within minutes.
Obtain the software
Purchase the “Single device 30 day license” from the license shop. This will allow you to perform an audit on one machine to validate your security posture against the Essential Eight criteria.
Start
Purchase
Run SecurE8Auditor.ps1 from PowerShell Usermode
Make sure your a standard user (non-admin) and then execute the script in either PowerShell.exe x64 or the ISE x64. To start the scan you just need to press “Y” on the user agreement.
Execute
Wait for the Magic
Within a few minutes the machine will be completly audited and the results will be displayed on the screen. In addition a document with the results is created.
Gather
Open the results.docx document
Open the word document to view the results and examine the captured artifacts. You may need to make minor adjustments like adding in artifacts for “MFA” and “Regular Backup”.
Report
Share the report with stakeholders
You are all done at this point. You may want to consider doing ongoing automated audits accross your entire fleet. For that you can upgrade your license to a “Sitewide 365 days license”. This will provide you the flight deck which allows you to view your security posture accross your entire organisation on a single pane of glass. Click here to see a tutorial of how easy it is to deploy and use.
Complete
Celebrate