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Organizations tasked with meeting regulatory framework compliance know the difficulties they will face. On top of the resource hours, it can be costly to ensure compliance. Public sector organizations as well as their contractors and consultants also understand the importance of Defense Information Security Agency Security Technical Implementation Guides (DISA STIGs) compliance. These configuration standards

As organizations mature their utilization of the cloud, they find more innovative and effective solutions for their workloads. For example, containerized applications offer portability, high efficiency, and faster app start-up. These are just a few reasons why Gartner reports that by 2023, "70% of applications deployed in the cloud will use containers as a packaging

Ensuring your organization’s IT environment is not only secure, but also patched regularly, can be challenging. Migrating to the cloud can help address these challenges in unique ways. CIS Hardened Images, which are virtual machine (VM) images built to defend against cyber threats, can help. CIS builds these securely pre-configured VMs to the secure configuration guidelines of […]

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) now offers two CIS Hardened Images on AWS Graviton2 processors: Ubuntu Linux 20.04 and Amazon Linux 2. Amazon Web Services (AWS) custom builds these processors using 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores. AWS Graviton2 processors deliver 40% better price performance compared to current generation x86-based instances, according to AWS. These hardened VMs are two of more […]

As organizations mature their utilization of the cloud, they find more innovative and effective solutions for their workloads. For example, containerized applications offer portability, high efficiency, and faster app start-up. These are just a few reasons why Gartner reports that by 2023, “70% of applications deployed in the cloud will use containers as a packaging […]

Cybercriminals target public sector organizations every day. From ransomware attacks to data theft, systems need defense-in-depth best practices and modern computing solutions to fend off cyber threats. Luckily, the Center for Internet Security (CIS) participates in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Authority to Operate (ATO) program. ATO’s partner-driven process helps organizations converge common cloud security […]

Just less than 25% of the internet’s busiest websites – including Dropbox, Netflix, and WordPress.com – served or proxied NGNIX in July 2021, according to Netcraft. But, how can organizations harden this popular open-source web server and their virtual machine (VM) images? The answer is CIS NGINX Hardened Images. At the Center for Internet Security (CIS), we […]

Organizations tasked with meeting regulatory framework compliance know the difficulties they will face. On top of the resource hours, it can be costly to ensure compliance. Public sector organizations as well as their contractors and consultants also understand the importance of Defense Information Security Agency Security Technical Implementation Guides (DISA STIGs) compliance. These configuration standards […]

Gain greater security for containerized applications with hardened images.

CIS Hardened Images support security and compliance efforts across multiple frameworks.