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CIS Benchmarks: Community driven security guidelines

CIS Benchmarks are the only consensus-developed security configuration recommendations both created and trusted by a global community of IT security professionals from …

CIS Hardened Images
CIS Hardened Images on AWS Marketplace

Does your organization spend countless resources hardening operating systems in the cloud? That’s why CIS pre-hardens virtual machine (VM) images to CIS Benchmark …

CIS Controls v8
CIS Controls v8: Safeguards to mitigate the most prevalent cyber-attacks

The CIS Critical Security Controls (CIS Controls) are a prioritized set of safeguards to mitigate cyber-attacks against systems and networks. They are mapped to and referenced …

CIS Controls v8
CIS Critical Security Controls v8

The CIS Critical Security Controls (CIS Controls) are a prioritized set of safeguards to mitigate the most prevalent cyber-attacks against systems and networks. They are …

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Test your security configuration with a free assessment tool from CIS

CIS-CAT Lite is the free assessment tool developed by the CIS (Center for Internet Security), which helps users implement secure configurations for multiple technologies. With …

CIS Hardened Images
Easily migrate to the cloud with CIS Hardened Images

CIS offers virtual images hardened in accordance with the CIS Benchmarks, a set of vendor agnostic, internationally recognized secure configuration guidelines. CIS Hardened …

CIS SecureSuite
How to enhance your cyber defense program with CIS SecureSuite

Join this webinar to learn how you can prioritize your security program to meet the requirements of regulatory and compliance frameworks with the CIS Critical Security …

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Cyber-attack defense: CIS Benchmarks + CDM + MITRE ATT&CK

Victims lost $6.9 billion to cybercrime in 2021, according to FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center. To take a bite out of that number, the Center for Internet Security …

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Cyber defense: Prioritized by real-world threat data

The impact of a cybersecurity breach can be painful for any enterprise, and devastating for some. Any one of the top five threats we see in today’s environment—malware, …

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Design, prioritize, and implement a cyber defense program with CIS CDM 2.0

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) Community Defense Model (CDM) v2.0 can be used to design, prioritize, implement, and improve an enterprise’s cybersecurity program. …

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Cybersecurity compliance: Start with proven best practices

As a security professional, you may be tasked with achieving SOC2 compliance for your organization, adopting a NIST framework, or complying with new security laws. These are …

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Improve your organization’s cyber hygiene with CIS CSAT Pro

Essential cyber hygiene is the foundation for any good cybersecurity program. The Center for Internet Security (CIS) defines essential cyber hygiene as Implementation Group 1 …

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