Threat Exposure Management

Your network configs are an attack surface.Assess them like one.

Q: Can this run in an air-gapped environment?

Yes. CyberSilo Network Configuration Assessment deploys as SaaS, self-hosted, or fully air-gapped. For government, defence and classified environments, the air-gapped model keeps all configuration data, findings and reports inside the environment.

Q: Which devices and platforms are supported?

Cisco IOS, IOS-XE, NX-OS, ASA, FTD, Meraki and SD-WAN; Juniper Junos; Arista EOS; Palo Alto PAN-OS and Panorama; Fortinet FortiOS and FortiManager; Check Point Gaia; HPE Aruba AOS-CX; F5 BIG-IP; Citrix NetScaler; VMware NSX; and AWS, Azure and GCP cloud network fabric.

Q: Are findings reviewed by a person, or is it purely automated?

Both. The platform performs collection, parsing and assessment; CyberSilo analysts then review findings, eliminate false positives and deliver a reviewed report. You receive an assessment, not a raw findings export.

Device auditing and hardening for routers, firewalls, switches, load balancers and cloud network fabric — returned as risk-rated findings with the exact configuration line, the standard it violates, and what an attacker can do with it.

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of the most common cybersecurity misconfigurations are network configuration failures — segmentation, ACLs, default configs, privilege separation, internal monitoring.

NSA / CISA AA23-278A

Configuration decides whether an exploit is contained or catastrophic. An unpatched device behind correct segmentation is an incident report. The same device on a flat VLAN with an exposed management plane is a breach.

32 days

median time to fully remediate an edge device vulnerability — and only 54% are ever fully remediated at all.

Verizon DBIR 2025

Configuration drift

Rules widen, temporary exceptions become permanent, and decommissioned access stays in place — gradually, invisibly, until an auditor or an attacker finds it.

What it does

CyberSilo Network Configuration Assessment is a module of CyberSilo Threat Exposure Management that audits every running and startup configuration across your network estate — then scores each finding by what it actually exposes, not by a vendor's default severity label.

Collection is agentless and credentialed. Configurations are parsed into a vendor-neutral model and evaluated against CIS Benchmarks, regional regulatory controls and CyberSilo's own exposure logic. Every finding comes back with the exact configuration line that produced it, the device, the timestamp, the standard it violates, and its position in an attack path.

Traditional network configuration management tells you what changed. CyberSilo tells you what an attacker can do with it, and what to fix first.

Five things you get

Coverage from the platform, judgement from our analysts

01 Risk-rated, not rule-based

Every finding is scored on exploitability, reachability from untrusted zones, asset criticality and compensating controls — then mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.

Two identical misconfigurations on two devices will not score the same, and should not. A permissive rule on an isolated lab switch is not the same finding as the identical rule on a device fronting your cardholder data environment.

02 Evidence in every finding

The exact configuration line, the command that produced it, the device, the timestamp and the standard it violates. Auditors get proof. Engineers get the line to change.

No screenshots, and no reconstructing what the tool was looking at three weeks after the report was written.

03 Attack path context

The finding is shown in the path an attacker would take — the entry point, the misconfiguration that enables the hop, and the asset at the end of it.

That changes the question from "which of these 400 findings is critical" to "which segment breaks the most paths." Usually a small number of changes collapse a large number of paths.

04 Regional compliance, natively mapped

NCA ECC, SAMA CSF, UAE NESA, Qatar NCS and PDPL — alongside CIS Benchmarks, PCI DSS v4.0.1, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, NIST CSF 2.0 and HIPAA.

Audit evidence comes from the same assessment that drives remediation, so security and compliance stop being two exercises producing two reports about the same devices.

05 Automated platform, expert-led validation

CyberSilo analysts review findings, eliminate false positives and deliver a reviewed report. Machine coverage, human judgement on the output — which is the difference between a findings list and an assessment.

How it works

Discover

Agentless collection across your fleet and cloud fabric.

Assess

Parsed to a vendor-neutral model and audited.

Prioritize

Scored against exploitability and reachability.

Mobilize

Routed as owned work items with remediation syntax.

Validate

Reassessed to confirm closure.

Gartner projects that organisations prioritising security investments through a continuous exposure management programme will be three times less likely to suffer a breach.

CIS Benchmark profiles

Level 1 and Level 2 implementation

CyberSilo assesses against both CIS Level 1 and Level 2 profiles, tailored to your operational requirements and risk appetite. Read our guide on common CIS Benchmark implementation mistakes.

Level 1 — Base

Essential security configuration

Foundational settings with minimal operational impact
Default credentials, unused services, management interface security
Basic access control and authentication hardening
Recommended minimum baseline for all environments
Aligns to NCA ECC Domain 3 basic controls

Level 2 — High security

Defence-in-depth configuration

Strict hardening — may require operational trade-offs
Advanced encryption (TLS 1.3, strong cipher suites)
Granular privilege separation and role-based access
Suitable for regulated, high-risk, or critical infrastructure
Aligns to SAMA CSF and NCA ECC Domain 4 advanced controls

Powered by the Nipper audit engine

CyberSilo uses Nipper — the industry-leading network configuration audit engine — to automate benchmark analysis across 80+ device types. This eliminates human error, ensures consistent rule coverage, and dramatically reduces assessment time. Analysts then layer expert review on top for context and accuracy.

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Analysis model

Automated analysis vs manual review

Why CyberSilo combines both — and why neither alone is sufficient. Explore further in our guide on automated CIS Benchmark remediation.

Capability	Automated (Nipper)	Manual analyst review
Rule coverage	600+ rules per device type	Targeted — high-risk areas and exceptions
Speed	Minutes per device	Hours — depends on complexity
Consistency	100% consistent rule application	Analyst-dependent
Context & intent	Limited — rule-based only	Evaluates business context & policy intent
False positive elimination	Basic — flag on rule match	Validates compensating controls
Rule-base logic review	Not available	Identifies overly permissive ACLs & rule conflicts
Novel misconfigurations	Only known patterns	Can identify novel or zero-day misconfigurations

Why not just use your NCCM tool

Network configuration and change management tools were built to answer an operations question: what changed, and can we roll it back. That is a necessary function, and CyberSilo does not replace it.

	Traditional NCCM	CyberSilo
Question answered	What changed?	What is exploitable, and what does it reach?
Assessment model	Pass / fail per rule	Risk-rated exposure with evidence
Severity	Vendor-set	Scored for your environment
Prioritisation	Finding count	Attack path impact
Compliance output	Rule compliance report	Control-mapped audit evidence
Delivery	Software only	Platform plus expert validation

CyberSilo does not replace configuration backup and restore. It decides which of those configurations is quietly costing you.

Frequently asked questions

Network configuration assessment, answered

What is a network configuration assessment?

A network configuration assessment audits the running and startup configurations of network devices — routers, firewalls, switches, load balancers and cloud network fabric — to identify settings that create exploitable exposure.

Unlike a vulnerability scan, which looks for known software flaws, a configuration assessment examines how the device is set up: segmentation, access control lists, management plane exposure, authentication, logging and privilege separation. NSA and CISA found that five of the ten most common cybersecurity misconfigurations are network configuration failures.

How is this different from our NCCM tool?

NCCM answers an operations question — what changed, and can we roll it back. CyberSilo answers a security question — what is exploitable, what does it reach, and what should be fixed first.

NCCM reports pass or fail against a rule with a vendor-set severity. CyberSilo scores each finding against exploitability, reachability from untrusted zones and asset criticality in your specific environment, then shows it in the attack path it enables. CyberSilo does not replace configuration backup and restore, and is not intended to.

How are configurations collected — do we need agents?

No. Collection is agentless and credentialed. CyberSilo connects to devices and cloud network APIs to retrieve running and startup configurations, then parses them into a vendor-neutral model for assessment. There is no software to deploy to network devices.

Can this run in an air-gapped environment?

Yes. The assessment deploys as SaaS, self-hosted, or fully air-gapped. For government, defence and classified environments, the air-gapped model keeps all configuration data, findings and reports inside the environment.

Which devices and platforms are supported?

Cisco (IOS, IOS-XE, NX-OS, ASA, FTD, Meraki, SD-WAN), Juniper Junos, Arista EOS, Palo Alto PAN-OS and Panorama, Fortinet FortiOS and FortiManager, Check Point Gaia, HPE Aruba AOS-CX, F5 BIG-IP, Citrix NetScaler, VMware NSX, and AWS, Azure and GCP cloud network fabric.

Which compliance frameworks does it map to?

CIS Benchmarks, PCI DSS v4.0.1, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, NIST CSF 2.0 and HIPAA, plus regional frameworks including NCA ECC and SAMA CSF (Saudi Arabia), UAE NESA, Qatar NCS and PDPL.

Findings carry their control mapping, so the same assessment produces both the remediation plan and the audit evidence.

Are findings reviewed by a person?

Both automated and reviewed. The platform performs collection, parsing and assessment; CyberSilo analysts then review findings, eliminate false positives and deliver a reviewed report. You receive an assessment, not a raw findings export.

How often should configurations be assessed?

Continuously, or at minimum after every significant network change and ahead of each audit cycle. Configuration drift is gradual and invisible — rules widen, temporary exceptions become permanent, and decommissioned access stays in place. Annual assessment finds a year of accumulated drift all at once.

How is it priced?

Pricing is based on device count, assessment frequency and deployment model. Request a quote for a figure against your actual fleet.

Your network configs are an attack surface.Assess them like one.

Coverage from the platform, judgement from our analysts

01 Risk-rated, not rule-based

02 Evidence in every finding

03 Attack path context

04 Regional compliance, natively mapped

05 Automated platform, expert-led validation

Discover

Assess

Prioritize

Mobilize

Validate

Level 1 and Level 2 implementation

Essential security configuration

Defence-in-depth configuration

Powered by the Nipper audit engine

Automated analysis vs manual review

At a glance

Assessment deliverables

Executive summary report

Technical findings report

Hardening roadmap & commands

Compliance mapping annex

Re-assessment & closure validation

Trend & delta reporting

Where configuration is the control that matters

Financial services & banking

Government & public sector

Energy & critical infrastructure

Healthcare

Manufacturing & industrial

MSSPs & service providers

Network configuration assessment, answered

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