4 bots. All 8 controls. Your hardware. Open source.
The usual pattern is familiar: long assessments, expensive recommendations, and too little follow-through. The Essential 8 Squad is interesting because it changes the model from “here is what you should do” to “here is capability that actually helps you do it”.
Everyone wants your money or your data. ML2 still needs actual implementation.
Six months later you get a PDF. The gap remains.
Your vuln scan results are a blueprint for attacking you. Why ship that offshore?
$120K/year if you can find one. They'll leave in 18 months.
“If you already know the basics matter, the interesting question is not whether to improve them — it is how to improve them without a giant consulting circus.”
That's the interesting bitFour bots. Each does real work, not just monitoring.
Finds vulns, prioritises by exploitability, patches, verifies, evidences. Done.
WDAC policies, macro restrictions, browser hardening. Audit first, enforce when ready.
MFA everywhere. Admin privilege audits. Legacy auth detection. Continuous.
Monitors jobs, finds gaps, runs actual restore tests. Evidence, not hope.
Run a full compliance assessment with synthetic data in under two minutes. No tenant needed.
15-minute call. Does it fit? Let's find out.
Hardware arrives. Hardened. Connected. Days, not months.
First scan. First report. You see exactly where you stand.
Bots keep working. Weekly reports. Drift detection. You run your business.
No default assumption that your sensitive security data should live in someone else’s cloud.
They don't monitor. They do the work.
No vendor lock-in. Walk away anytime.
Cheaper than a junior analyst. Never calls in sick.
15 minutes. No pitch deck. Just a conversation about whether this fits.