With AuditTAP, you can now check whether your Windows Server 2025 systems meet the current requirements of the CIS Benchmarks. It’s quick and easy.
Conduct a hardening test!
If you want to properly secure your IT landscape, you can’t avoid Secure Configuration, aka System Hardening. This preventative measure is required by an increasing number of IT regulations, laws, industry standards, and norms. But how well are your systems really hardened? Where is there still potential for improvement?
These questions can be answered, among other things, with AuditTAP. The open source tool can be downloaded for free from Github – version 5.12.
The latest version again offers many small and large improvements. The most important new features are the…
Windows Server 2025 Hardening Checks
This means: With AuditTAP, it is now possible to conduct a Hardening Audit of the latest Microsoft server systems. The audit uses the recommendations of the CIS Benchmarks for Windows Server 2025 (version 1.0.0).
After the audit, the AuditTAP report shows you how well your systems are hardened according to the specifications. In addition, the AuditTAP Risk Score shows you at a glance how critical the potential deficiencies in your Windows Server 2025 Hardening are.
Would you like to download, install, and use AuditTAP immediately? You can find tips on how to do this in this video:
Further new features in AuditTAP 5.12
As you can see from the release notes, our developers have made further improvements in addition to the Windows Server 2025 Hardening Audit feature. These are the two most important:
Simplified Office Hardening Check
AuditTAP has long been used to verify the Secure Configuration of the various Office suites (2016, 2019, 2022) and Office 365, as well as their individual applications (such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint). Previously, you had to manually select and run the corresponding test.
Since version 5.12, AuditTAP automatically detects which Office version is installed on your system and independently selects the appropriate Office Hardening check. It uses, among other things, the CIS Office Benchmarks 1.2.0.
Latest Windows 11 Enterprise Check
Are you using Windows 11 Enterprise? Then you should also harden this operating system as best as possible! Because Microsoft ships it with some unnecessary attack surfaces out of the box.
With the new version of AuditTAP, you can perform a Hardening Audit based on the current CIS Benchmarks for Windows 11 Enterprise (version 4.0.0).
What should you do if there are hardening deficiencies?
Is your AuditTAP report quite “red”? Then you should act as quickly as possible and harden your systems better! But proceed strategically!
➡ Understand: Manual configuration is simply not feasible for large system landscapes. Centralized configuration using Group Policies is also considered a no-go, as Group Policy Objects quickly reach their limits when faced with complex challenges. Furthermore, some regulations now prohibit the use of GPOs.
➡ More sensible: System hardening using PowerShell scripts or PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC). You must implement these yourself – or you can use Enforce Administrator as a shortcut.
➡ With this hardening tool “made in Germany,” you can centrally harden large system landscapes and have the configurations monitored. This significantly increases IT resilience, practically at the push of a button.
⏬ Download: Enforce Administrator Product Brochure (PDF)
Would you like to support AuditTAP?
Then join the active community on GitHub! Share your feedback or request new features. We look forward to a productive exchange to iteratively optimize AuditTAP and adapt it to your needs.
Need help with your system hardening?
Do you have questions about AuditTAP? Or do you need support with hardening audits and automated system hardening? Our experts are happy to help! Contact us without obligation, and we will get back to you promptly.