Engineers need detail: affected sections, policy identifiers, objects, services, evidence, and remediation notes. Executives need a clearer picture of risk, trend, severity, exposure, and whether the organisation is improving or drifting.
Trying to serve both audiences with one report often creates a document that is too vague for engineers and too technical for management. Separating the views makes the same audit data more useful to each reader.
ConfigSentry is built around this difference by supporting detailed engineer-focused audit output and executive reporting that summarises posture without losing the connection to real configuration findings.