CIS Implementation:
How to Eat an Elephant

Yep...you read that right. If you're like most of your peers, the challenge of implementing CIS Benchmarks is like being asked to eat an elephant. Where do you even start? It's a huge initiative, hard to wrangle, and you'll need a herd to get the job done. SteelCloud is here to help break the process down into bite-size pieces.

You're responsible for managing a large infrastructure and maintaining compliance. 

 

That's a really important and really tough job. With ever-changing technologies and regulations, it can take a lot of time and manual effort to make sure your systems are secure. If you want to save time, effort, budget – and your sanity – while bringing each and every one of your endpoints into compliance, you're in the right place.

 

We curated this page just for you to learn why you should align with CIS BenchmarksTM and how SteelCloud can make eating the elephant of iimplemention much more palatable.

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Consider us your "elephant slayer". We can help you lock down your systems and establish a Zero Trust baseline with steel clad assurance in an hour. SteelCloud simplifies CIS Benchmarks implementation, automating and remediating the process in every domain. Do it all without having to hire a team of administrators to perform all the manual work continual compliance takes. Our patented ConfigOS software is proven to reduce hardening efforts by 90% and compliance costs by 70%.

Why CIS Benchmarks and why now?

Cyberattacks are on the rise in higher education, eliciting the concern of institutions, donors, government entities and students. Whether mandated or not, most organizations create baseline technical security configurations to harden against those attacks. However, configuring systems is one thing. Maintaining those security configurations over time is a whole different beast.

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) Critical Security Controls offer institutions a path to maturing cybersecurity programs, as well as technical guidance for establishing and maintaining secure configurations.

CIS Benchmarks is a collection of more than 100 configuration guidelines for more than 25 vendor product families commonly found in higher education.

SteelCloud's patented technology, ConfigOS, automates CIS Benchmarks implementation and maintenance to make the elephant of CIS Benchmarks adherence easier to digest. Read more here.

Higher standards for Higher Education

From ransomware to ghost students, cyberattacks are rising sharply within institutions of higher education, exposing student data and research, and even holding data for ransom. In fact, education is the most targeted industry globally when it comes to cyberattacks, with an average of nearly 2,300 attacks per week.  

Read on to learn how to become cyber resilient and make your system a massive, immovable beast to hack.

CIS Compliance made easy

There are several paths to achieving compliance, and most require manual effort and time-consuming tasks that IA’s describe as "soul-sucking work".

The good news is that the entire process –from scanning the system to remediating issues to maintaining security over time and generating reports to prove it—can be automated.

See how we can help you condense weeks of office work into one hour.

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How to Combat the Cybersecurity Crisis in Higher Education

This eBook covers the stark reality of cyber threats facing higher education institutions as well as practical advice for fortifying your defenses. 

Download now to learn how to best safeguard your institution's data, reputation, and future. 

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Five reasons to become CIS compliant

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CIS Benchmarks Implementation Success Guide

This free, comprehensive guide covers everything from cybersecurity basics to NIST 800-53 to automating the hardening process for minimal cost and maximum adherence. If you read one CIS Guide this year, make it this one!

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