WHY OPNBYTE

From published guidance to evidenced configuration.

Security hardening guidance is everywhere: benchmarks, baselines, vendor documents, and standards. The hard part has never been finding it. The hard part is turning hundreds of pages of guidance into work that gets reviewed, prioritised, implemented, and evidenced. Opnbyte exists to close that gap.

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What You Will Find Here

Articles and Guides

Practical writing on security hardening: how-to guides, walkthroughs, and notes on operating systems, benchmarks, and the tooling around them. Updated as the guidance changes.

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Projects

Open tooling for hardening work. SHGIR is the first project: it turns published security guides into structured workbooks for implementation. Further projects will follow.

Explore SHGIR

The SHGIR Library

A free, growing collection of more than 600 ready-to-use workbooks, with new titles added as upstream guidance is updated.

Open the Library

Featured Project: SHGIR

01Pick a Guide
Choose a published benchmark or baseline from the library, ready as a structured workbook.
02Review and Prioritise
Assess applicability, assign MoSCoW priorities, and plan implementation phases.
03Implement and Track
Record status, evidence, and deviations as remediation progresses.
04Demonstrate Compliance
Use the built-in framework mappings and dashboard to evidence progress over time.