CIS Hardened Images ensures that the businesses’ cloud infrastructure is aligned with the security configuration recommendations by the CIS Benchmarks.
Offering a plethora of benefits for the organizations, the hardened images happen to be highly secure when compared to the standard images. It helps mitigate security problems such as insufficient authorization, denial of service, and others.
In short, CIS Hardened Images helps realize an on-demand scalable virtual environment that is highly secure.
What is CIS Benchmark?
CIS Benchmarks offers us guidelines to secure the configuration of the businesses’ systems. Offering internationally recognized security configuration guidelines, CIS benchmarks aim at defending IT components against cyberattacks and providing data security. These guidelines are accepted by organizations, industries, government bodies as well as academia.
Benefits of CIS
– Syncs with CIS Benchmarks
Recommended by cybersecurity professionals around the globe, confirm the usage of best practices to ensure great security against cyberattacks.
– Mitigate Threats
CIS Images enable companies to protect their virtual systems by mitigating common threats. For instance, unauthorized access, outside intrusion and more.
– Cost-Effective
Virtual images help businesses access on-demand computing solutions, when and as needed. Hence, reduces the cost and effort of purchasing hardware, software licensing, as well as maintenance.
– Scalable Solutions
Easy to scale up as well as scale down when the business requirements grow or subside. Hence, offering a very flexible computing environment to the organizations.
– Confirmation Reports
For increased trust among the businesses using CIS images, reports are consistently generated showcasing alignment with the target CIS benchmarks.
– CIS Image Methodology
With guidelines for over 140 technologies, we utilize the most adaptable processes and utilize the preconfigured images for virtual computing machines to provide you with the systems from major cloud provider marketplaces.
– Recognize the Applicable CIS Benchmarks
Masterstone understands that every company has its own requirements. Based on the clouds and technology partner preferences, we recognize the CIS benchmarks applicable to our clients.
– Apply CIS Benchmarks to Virtual Machines
The recognized benchmarks are then used to set up the virtual machines in the cloud. These are applied to the base operating systems within the cloud computing systems.
– Configure CIS Images
Our team finally configures the CIS hardened images, aligned with the necessary CIS benchmarks and guidelines.
– Reporting
Final reporting addressing the various CIS benchmarks applicable for the configured CIS images. These reports instil trust among clients as well as offer transparency to the virtual machines.