Guardian Essentials Demo: Configuration Drift & CIS Compliance

See how Guardian Essentials detects configuration drift, scores your estate against CIS Benchmarks and gives you the evidence auditors ask for. Stephen Earl (Head of Product) and Jon Dedman (Head of Pre-Sales) at Cloudhouse walk through the product, from dashboard to change reconciliation. ▶ Start a free trial: https://cloudhouse.com/guardian-essen... ▶ Compare Guardian packages: https://cloudhouse.com/guardian-packa... WHAT YOU'LL LEARN • Why unapproved and unreconciled change is the starting point for most IT incidents • How Guardian Essentials inventories every node in your estate • How to measure compliance against 500+ CIS Benchmarks out of the box, without writing policy • How to see exactly what changed on a node since the last scan: which file, which setting, which package • How to reconcile detected changes against ServiceNow or Freshservice change requests, with an audit trail • How Essentials uses data you already have in ServiceNow, Freshservice, AWS and Azure CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 2:17 Who uses Guardian 3:11 The risk of change in the IT estate 4:56 Introducing Guardian Essentials 5:51 Essentials, Professional and Enterprise 6:56 What Guardian Essentials delivers 7:42 Proving compliance with CIS Benchmarks 8:17 Using the data you already have 8:55 Product tour overview 9:12 Demo: compliance dashboard 11:39 Demo: nodes and node details 13:48 Demo: detected drift and change reconciliation 16:46 Where to go from here 17:36 Q&A WHO IT'S FOR IT operations, infrastructure, security and compliance teams who need to prove their Windows, Linux and macOS estate matches policy, especially in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, government and utilities. ABOUT GUARDIAN ESSENTIALS Guardian Essentials is configuration drift detection and compliance software from Cloudhouse. It builds a live inventory of your estate, scans for changes, scores every node against CIS Benchmarks, and lets you match each change to the approved change request, so you have compliance evidence at any point, not just at audit time. Guardian Professional adds risk and vulnerability scanning and automated change reconciliation; Guardian Enterprise adds AI change control and file integrity monitoring. Learn more: https://cloudhouse.com #ConfigurationDrift #CISBenchmarks #ITCompliance #ChangeManagement #ServiceNow