If you have ever seen one of my presentations on or we have ever discussed technology security or operations, you have likely heard me say something like: At a certain maturity level everything is just exception management. Keep reading to get more details on one of the most common exception management techniques, compensatory or compensating controls.
The Maester community of contributors have been hard at work and we are excited to announce the June 2025 release of Maester! 🎉
Here are some quick stats for you:
❇️ 55,000+ tenants have used Maester to improve their security posture
🚀 260,000+ downloads of Maester on PowerShell Gallery
💻 2,600+ commits on GitHub
🤝 72+ contributors
✳️ 285 Maester tests (90+ new tests!)
📦 252 releases
There's a lot to cover, so let's dive right in!
The Maester module can now dynamically build the necessary files for testing and reporting on all the Office 365 Recommended Configuration Analyzer (ORCA) controls. Providing users with a single report covering many controls that existed before Maester and which are still valuable. 🚀
We are excited to announce that you can now deploy your Maester results (using Azure DevOps) to a web app in Azure! 🚀
Teams using Azure DevOps pipelines can now easily integrate Maester into their CI/CD workflows to run automated security checks and enhance their security monitoring on a daily basis.
Utiziling an Azure web app providing access to the results using Entra id as authentication.
Maester now works seamlessly with BitBucket 👏!
Teams using BitBucket pipelines can easily integrate Maester into their CI/CD workflows to run automated security checks and enhance their security monitoring.
Maester now works seamlessly with GitLab 👏!
Teams using GitLab pipelines can easily integrate Maester into their CI/CD workflows to run automated security checks and enhance their security monitoring.
Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of the Maester DevOps Terraform Module! This module streamlines the setup of Maester in Azure DevOps and automates test execution via Azure DevOps Pipelines. 🔥
Are you interested in presenting about Maester at a conference or at your organization?
We've created a repository to host slide decks that you can use to get started.
The command Send-MtTeamsMessage to post your Maester results to a Teams channel has been there for a while but we did forget to write the documentation for it. This is now fixed!
