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Introduction to Compensating Controls ๐ŸŽ›๏ธ

ยท 6 min read
Mike Soule
Maester maintainer + National Director, Sentinel Technologies

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.

Maester June 2025 Release

ยท 4 min read
Merill Fernando
Maester maintainer + Product Manager, Microsoft

The Maester community of contributors have been hard at work and we are excited to announce the June 2025 release of Maester! ๐ŸŽ‰

June stats

Here are some quick stats for you:

โ‡๏ธ 55,000+ tenants have used Maester to improve their security posture

๐Ÿš€ 260,000+ downloads of Maester on PowerShell Gallery

๐Ÿ’ป 2,600+ commits on GitHub

๐Ÿค 72+ contributors

โœณ๏ธ 285 Maester tests (90+ new tests!)

๐Ÿ“ฆ 252 releases

There's a lot to cover, so let's dive right in!

Maester results on Azure Web App!

ยท One min read
Sebastian Claesson
Cloud Solution Architect, Fora

We are excited to announce that you can now deploy your Maester results (using Azure DevOps) to a web app in Azure! ๐Ÿš€

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 Adds Support for GitLab

ยท One min read
Stefan Wey
Maester contributor

Maester now works seamlessly with GitLab ๐Ÿ‘!

Teams using GitLab pipelines can easily integrate Maester into their CI/CD workflows to run automated security checks and enhance their security monitoring.

Maester Terraform Module

ยท 2 min read
Brian Veldman
Cloud Solution Architect, Fellowmind
Merill Fernando
Maester maintainer + Product Manager, Microsoft

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. ๐Ÿ”ฅ