Nipper by Titania Ltd provides proactive network configuration assessments to address security and compliance gaps with prioritized risk and remediation findings. Nipper analyzes configurations with the expertise of a pentester, serving as an essential on-demand solution for configuration management, compliance, and control. Network risk owners utilize Nipper to eliminate known pathways that could enable threat actors to modify network configurations and escalate attacks. Assessors use Nipper to reduce audit times by up to 80% with pass/fail evidence of compliance with military, federal, and industry regulations. Assess Zero Trust readiness using vendor hardening standards, ensure networks are adequately segmented, and assess compliance with risk management frameworks. Nipper’s advanced network contextualization suppresses irrelevant findings, prioritizes risks by criticality, and automates device-specific guidance on fixing misconfigurations. Exception-based security reporting identifies configuration failures against vendor hardening guides and best practices, while also checking for known vulnerabilities. Evidence-based compliance reporting provides specific information about the tests performed. Nipper checks whether each configuration passes or fails to comply with the chosen RMF control or security standard. Nipper reports the significance of its findings according to trusted risk criticality rating systems, highlighting ease and impact of exploit and ease of fix. Remediation analysis to improve compliance posture. Nipper provides device-specific guidance to fix misconfigurations, significantly reducing the mean time to remediate vulnerabilities. Quickly and accurately detect networking misconfigurations, assess their impact, ease of exploitation, and ease of fix. View findings through Nipper’s security or compliance lenses to report posture and prioritize remediation workflows by risk criticality. External Assessors/Pentesters can significantly reduce the time spent auditing routers, switches, and firewalls against compliance standards by automating configuration assessment analysis and reporting.