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Ensuring network profile is configured as ‘Private’Įxpand your GPO and go to Computer Configuration -> Policies -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Network List Manager Policies. This will open up the below screen, add the group, if its not already there then select the button Add button and add ‘builtin\administrators’.Ĭlick OK to save.

Create a ‘LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy’ registry entryĬreate a domain user and group and name them accordingly, then make the new user is a member of the new group.Įxpand your GPO and go to Computer configuration -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Restricted Groups, right click and select ‘Add Group’ and select the group you have just created.

Allow File and Print Sharing through the firewall.

Ensuring network profile is configured as ‘Private’.

Create a dedicated Nessus administrator account which has full local access to Windows machines.

The steps to configure the environment are as follows: This guide also assumes that you are using the built in Windows firewall, if you are using another endpoint firewall such as that from your Antivirus vendor, then add exceptions accordingly. 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