Open Approach brought in Senteon to help standardize and maintain secure server configurations as part of its CMMC readiness work. Brandon and the team needed a reliable way to secure their servers against a recognized benchmark and keep those configurations consistent over time.
Server configuration management was one of the heavier areas to prepare for, and Open Approach needed more than static documentation or one-time build checklists. Once a server was built and hardened, they needed confidence that settings would stay aligned and that any configuration drift could be identified and corrected. Senteon addressed that gap by monitoring server configurations against CIS Level 1 benchmarks and helping return systems to the approved state when drift occurred.
“Where you guys really shine is the configuration drift monitoring piece, Senteon monitors any configuration changes against CIS Level 1 benchmarks. If change occurs, Senteon will change it back. It’s just one of those applications that sort of works.”
In practice, Senteon made Open Approach’s configuration management process easier to explain and defend. Instead of documenting every individual setting in excessive detail, Brandon’s team could state that servers were aligned to CIS Level 1 benchmarks enforced by Senteon. That gave them a clean, repeatable story for how server baselines were established, maintained, and monitored.
Senteon also aided Open Approach’s CMMC audit readiness by giving them a stronger foundation for the configuration management portion of the SSP. The SSP language and supporting baseline documentation kept the evidence focused while having technical enforcement behind it.