Center for Internet Security
Prioritizing CIS Controls for effective cybersecurity across organizations
In this Help Net Security interview, Randy Marchany, CISO at Virginia Tech, discusses the challenges and strategies associated with implementing CIS Controls in organizations …
Accelerate essential cyber hygiene for your small business
Think you’re too small to experience a cyber attack? That’s not the case. In fact, cyber threat actors (CTAs) are increasingly setting their sights on small …
Crunchy Data and Center for Internet Security help businesses secure Postgres deployments
Crunchy Data in collaboration with the Center for Internet Security, announced the publication of the PostgreSQL CIS Benchmark for PostgreSQL 16. Crunchy Data worked with the …
Uphold Linux systems’ performance and availability in Azure
Cloud computing carries many benefits for your business… as long as you can ensure the performance and availability of your cloud environments. Let’s take the following …
Essential cyber hygiene: Making cyber defense cost effective
Strengthening your cyber defenses can be a daunting task. Where do you start? Which tools do you use? How much will it cost? And, what do you risk losing if you do nothing? …
Cloud security and functionality: Don’t settle for just one
Cloud security is important to you, but that doesn’t mean you’re willing to trade security for functionality. You need security to work for you. Whatever cloud security …
CIS SecureSuite membership: Leverage best practices to improve cybersecurity
Whether you’re facing a security audit or interested in configuring systems securely, CIS SecureSuite Membership is here to help. CIS SecureSuite provides thousands of …
CIS Benchmarks Communities: Where configurations meet consensus
Have you ever wondered how technology hardening guidelines are developed? Some are determined by a particular vendor or driven by a bottom-line perspective. That’s not the …
How to get started with ongoing configuration assessments
There’s an old adage in business: if you’re not measuring something, you can’t manage it. These days, information technology (IT) and information security …
Balbix introduced a new capability that automates CIS Benchmark requirements
With Balbix, compliance teams can not only access current and up-to-date CIS Benchmarks reports but also understand their most significant and critical assets and take steps …
The significance of CIS Control mapping in the 2023 Verizon DBIR
Verizon’s recently released 2023 Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) provides organizations with a comprehensive analysis of the evolving threat landscape and …
3 ways we’ve made the CIS Controls more automation-friendly
Compliance obligations that support data privacy and cyber risk are nearly ubiquitous. Not only that, but they’re expanding. According to Gartner, government regulations …