Intune manages your devices. Siemserva audits whether your compliance and configuration policies actually harden them.
Microsoft Intune is the cloud engine for device management and endpoint security across Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. It enrolls devices, pushes compliance policies and configuration profiles, drives update rings, and integrates with Conditional Access and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Intune is excellent at applying configuration. Independently verifying that configuration, ranking the gaps by risk, mapping them to compliance, and tying device patch state to real CVEs is a second job, and that is where Siemserva comes in.
Siemserva runs standalone for full Microsoft 365 posture across configurations, logs, and CVEs, or right alongside Microsoft Intune.
| What Microsoft Intune does well | Where teams want more |
|---|---|
| Cross-platform MDM and MAM across Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. | Intune applies settings; it does not independently grade them by severity with evidence and a fix. |
| Compliance policies, configuration profiles, and security baselines. | Mapping device posture to MCSB, CISA SCuBA, or CIS benchmarks is manual. |
| Update rings, Windows Update for Business, and Windows Autopatch. | Tying missing patches to specific CVEs, KEV status, and exploit likelihood is out of scope. |
| Tight integration with Entra ID Conditional Access and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. | Unassigned or conflicting profiles can quietly hide real exposure. |
| Capability | Microsoft Intune | Siemserva |
|---|---|---|
| Device configuration and profiles | Core strength | Independent verification and scoring |
| Severity-ranked findings with fixes | Limited | 650+ checks, evidence and remediation |
| Compliance mapping (MCSB, SCuBA, CIS) | Manual | Native on every scan |
| Patch coverage verification | Self-reported | Azure Update Manager, Intune, Defender TVM |
| CVE risk ranking | Not native | MSRC, CISA KEV, EPSS |
| Device-to-CVE exposure | No | Graph relationships |
Comparison reflects general capabilities at time of writing and is provided for research. Vendor features change; verify current specifics with each vendor.
Every finding, and the full graph behind it, is yours. Through the Senserva SDK and the Claude MCP you get complete access to the underlying Siemserva data, so you can query it, extend it, and build your own checks, reports, automation, and integrations on top. Nothing is locked away in a vendor cloud, and the data stays with you.
Siemserva does not just record pass or fail. It models your target environment, the identities, devices, applications, policies, and how they relate, as a queryable graph. That makes the data a foundation for new work: custom analysis, threat hunting, and automation, not a static checklist you read once and set aside.
Intune splits endpoint posture into two ideas that are easy to confuse. Compliance policies decide whether a device is considered healthy, minimum OS build, encryption on, antivirus active, and feed that signal into Conditional Access. Configuration profiles and security baselines actually apply the settings. The common failure mode is not a wrong setting but an unassigned or conflicting one: a profile that targets the wrong group, a baseline superseded by a custom profile, or a compliance policy with no Conditional Access consuming its result. Auditing assignment and effective state, not just the policy that exists, is what turns a tidy console into real assurance.
The settings attackers care about most live in Windows endpoint hardening. Attack surface reduction (ASR) rules block common techniques, Office child-process and macro abuse, credential theft from LSASS, ransomware behavior, and untrusted USB executables, and each rule can sit in audit, block, or off. BitLocker covers system, fixed, and removable drives, with recovery-key escrow and rotation that are frequently overlooked. Microsoft Defender Antivirus settings (real-time protection, cloud-delivered protection, PUA, tamper protection) and the three firewall profiles (domain, private, public) round out the baseline. A single ASR rule left in audit can be the gap that matters.
Intune drives Windows patching through update rings built on Windows Update for Business: quality and feature update deferrals, active hours, deadline and grace periods, and pause windows. Windows Autopatch extends this with managed, staged rollouts and reporting, and driver and firmware update policies handle the hardware layer. The questions that decide real exposure are operational: are rings assigned to every device, are deferrals so long that critical fixes lag, and are devices stalled on a feature update that has reached end of servicing.
Microsoft Update keeps Windows and Microsoft apps current, but the software attackers exploit most, browsers, runtimes, PDF readers, conferencing clients, is third-party. Intune Enterprise App Management and Win32 app packaging let you deploy and update these, and tools like PatchMyPC, ManageEngine, Automox, Action1, and Ivanti publish their catalogs into Intune so third-party patching can converge with Windows patching. The long tail is where coverage usually breaks down, and where an independent inventory of installed versus patched versions earns its keep.
A list of missing KBs is not a risk assessment. Microsoft's Security Response Center (MSRC) maps each KB to the CVEs it fixes; those CVEs carry CVSS severity, a CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) flag when they are being exploited in the wild, and an EPSS score estimating exploit probability. Joining device patch state to that enrichment turns raw counts into a ranked list: these specific machines are missing a patch for an actively exploited, high-EPSS vulnerability, fix them first. That device-to-CVE view is the difference between patch reporting and vulnerability management.
No. Intune manages and configures devices; Siemserva independently audits the resulting posture, ranks it by severity, maps it to compliance, and verifies patch coverage with real CVE context.
It reads patch state through Microsoft's own APIs, Azure Update Manager for Azure and Arc-enabled machines, Intune via Microsoft Graph, and Microsoft Defender vulnerability management, so it confirms the result on the device regardless of how the update was delivered.
Yes. It links devices to missing patches and missing patches to the CVEs they fix, enriched with CVSS scores, CISA KEV exploited status, and EPSS exploit probability, so you can answer which devices are exposed to a given vulnerability.
Compliance policies, configuration profiles, attack surface reduction rules, BitLocker and disk encryption, Microsoft Defender antivirus and firewall, application control, the Windows security experience, update rings and driver updates, and device ownership and support state, roughly 190 device-management checks.
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