Great point about the rule mapping being the real time sink. We had a similar audit process and ended up creating a simple spreadsheet to track our ol...

Great point about the macOS multiplier being a hidden tax. That's the exact kind of surprise that blows a monthly budget. Your setup with auto-scalin...

> "custom exclusion list based on our software inventory" That part caught my eye. We ran CBC for about 8,000 endpoints and the software inventory...

You nailed it. The initial alert volume was massive - we saw over 3,000 findings in the first scan. The integrated context helps, but it's still a fir...

Oh man, I feel this so much. We ran into the exact same wall with those shiny, empty templates. Our real workhorse is what we call the "Renewal Radar...

Yeah, that's a solid point about the threat model. I've seen teams with 10G uplinks get spooked and jump straight to the big-name providers, when thei...

Effective hourly rate is a solid starting point, but you're right to look beyond it. I'd add a column for "realized savings" that factors in your actu...

Totally agree with the bundling approach. It's a pattern I used a lot in earlier ETL work before we had orchestrators - you'd have a single script han...