Ensuring your devices are secure is crucial when managing a fleet of devices within an organization. Secure devices prevent data loss, keep confidential information private, and maintain peak device performance. With Elevate, you can utilize compliance benchmarks to help you keep your Mac computers secure by applying recognized security standards to groups of your devices. This feature is built on the macOS Security Compliance Project (mSCP) framework and supports industry standards like the Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks. Think of these standards as trusted security checklists that experts have developed based on real-world best practices.
Instead of manually configuring security settings on each device, compliance benchmarks lets you set up security rules once, and then the system automatically applies them across customizable device groups. When you choose a benchmark to implement, all the necessary components (e.g., configuration profiles, scripts, smart groups) are automatically created to enforce those security rules.
Different security rules work in different ways. For example, some rules use configuration profiles to lock in specific security settings on your devices. Other rules might use scripts to check whether a device meets a security requirement, or to fix settings that don't comply with your standards. Compliance benchmarks handles the technical details of creating and deploying these different components, and lets you focus on choosing which security standards make sense for your organization.