Developed by cybersecurity professionals worldwide, CIS Benchmarks are best practices for securing IT systems, software, networks, and cloud infrastructure.
Any organization can use CIS benchmarks to achieve their security and compliance goals in AWS. The guidelines are created by representatives from businesses, governments, and academic institutions with global recognition, and are in line with standards and regulations such as GDPR in the EU, HIPAA...
CIS provides certification for software security vendors if they meet the requirements of the CIS Benchmark profile. SOC2: Service Organization Controls Short for Service Organization Controls, the SOC2 framework was developed by AICPA to enhance an organization's security by focusing on the following...
CIS benchmarks have broad applicability across a wide range of industries, and are useful for any organisation deploying services on the internet. Some industry sectors carry specific regulatory requirements which mandate system hardening, such as PCI-DSS, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standa...
Three compliance standards are being removed from the product: SWIFT CSP-CSCF v2020 (for Azure)- This was superseded by the v2022 version CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark v1.1.0andv1.3.0- We have two newer versions available (v1.4.0 and v2.0.0) ...
With open source Osquery, a small fraction of basic compliance checks can run, but the ability to scale is limited. Users working with a full-scale, Osquery-powered, analytics platform provider can run many types of compliance checks such asCIS Benchmarks,FedRAMP, andSOC 2. ...
System configurations are sometimes a trade-off between usability, performance and security. Industry recommendations like the CIS Benchmarks or DISA STIG provide hundreds of configuration recommendations to increase the security posture of software deployments and lock systems down. However, the sheer num...
Are my deployments configured correctly? Are there overly privileged containers that don’t need the heightened privilege? Am I using a read-only root file system? What’s my compliance posture with CIS Benchmarks and NIST SP 800-190? Am I isolating any workloads deemed sensitive using built-...
Following these benchmarks is crucial to maintaining security procedures and policies that fit the dynamic nature of cloud infrastructure. 3. Place security checks in dev channels The nature of the cloud means that applications are continuously using and accessing new resources, which makes it ...
Harden the host operating system—you should use a script to configure the host properly according toCIS benchmarks. You can use a lightweight Linux distribution for hosting containers like CoreOS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host.