

If you don’t have Active Directory, then you can configure all your machines locally using the Local Group Policy Editor functionality. All the configuration settings can be added to the one Group Policy Object.

There are several parts to this configuration and this guide will concentrate using the group policy management tool as a way of configuring the environment. This guide walks you through the process of configuring your environment in preparation for an audit.

Your Cyber Essentials certification body may have asked you to configure your environment in preparation for this, this is a requirement and failure to not have a successful credential patch scan will result in your audit failing. If you are reading this you may be undergoing a Cyber Essentials Plus audit, which requires you to undergo a credentialed patch scan, one of the products which can be used is Tenable Nessus. How to setup your Windows environment for a Nessus Credentialed patch scan
