Build Continuous Assurance with Baseline Health Checks
Transforming disorganized inventory data into a clear, enriched view of assets and applications, so security teams can stop assuming and start proving.
The Challenge
"We Configured It Once" Is Rarely True for Long
Security settings for endpoints, identities, email, and device management are always changing. Some changes are planned; others are made by mistake. Most are never tracked well enough to prove that controls are still configured correctly. Over time, this creates hidden gaps — protections are assumed rather than validated, and audits or incidents expose the configuration drift that accumulated in silence.
The result is a familiar but painful dynamic: security teams believe their tools are doing their job, only to discover during an incident review or compliance audit that a critical control was quietly misconfigured weeks or months earlier. Manual spot checks and point-in-time assessments simply cannot keep pace with the rate of change across modern environments.
AI-Powered Agent
Scout: Establish the Baseline
Scout is the Discern Security AI agent that turns "best practices" into repeatable health checks and builds a trusted baseline you can measure continuously — not just once.
Rather than relying on static documents and manual reviews, Scout converts vendor guidance into checks evaluated through APIs and telemetry, built on clean, consistent data.
AI-Driven Analysis
Auto-Generated Checks
Baseline Created
142 checks generated
How It Works
How Discern's Scout Agent Works
Scout operates as a continuous assurance engine — connecting to your existing tools, normalizing the data, and delivering a measurable, always-current picture of your security posture.
STEP 01
Connect & Normalize
Scout connects to your existing tools and standardizes posture and inventory data, so results are consistent across all systems regardless of vendor naming conventions.
STEP 02
Establish the Baseline
Scout creates a baseline comparing your current state to your ideal setup, mapping checks to frameworks like MITRE, CIS, and NIST to support your target state.
STEP 03
Run Continuous Checks
Scout runs health checks continuously to show exactly what is configured correctly, what's missing, and what has changed — eliminating point-in-time blind spots.
STEP 04
Feed the System
Scout produces trusted signals that power prioritization, remediation workflows, and executive reporting so every decision is based on facts, not assumptions.
Integrations
Key Use Cases by Tool
Scout continuously evaluates best-practice checks across your critical control families and flags any deviation from the baseline. Current integrations deliver immediate value across the tools your team already relies on.
CrowdStrike
EDR
Identify when exclusions, disabled features, or missing protections reduce your EDR readiness before attackers find the gap.
Mimecast
Email Security
Verify that email security policies follow best practices and surface any missing or inconsistent protections across policy sets.
JAMF
Device Management
Confirm device hardening profiles are in place and match the baseline, highlighting inconsistent settings across device groups.
Entra ID
Identity & Access
Validate that identity controls are configured to match your target state and surface exceptions that could weaken your security posture.
Success Metrics
Measurable Security Outcomes
Scout makes security posture measurable. Teams gain clear, quantifiable evidence that controls are working — and clear visibility into where gaps remain.
94%
avg. check pass rate
Control Posture & Coverage
Percent of best-practice checks passing by tool and control family, with reduction in missing protections tracked over time.
80%
less review time
Operational Efficiency
Reduced time spent on manual configuration reviews and point-in-time assessments — replaced by always-on, automated validation.
3x
faster tool onboarding
Faster Onboarding
Baseline checks are repeatable and reusable, accelerating onboarding for new tools, teams, and environments.
Scout turns hardening guidance into measurable, repeatable health checks and a trusted baseline. It's the right agent when you need configuration assessment and optimization — and when you want continuous assurance based on facts instead of assumptions.
