Center for Internet Security

The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS®) makes the connected world a safer place for people, businesses, and governments through our core competencies of collaboration and innovation. We are a community-driven nonprofit, responsible for the CIS Controls® and CIS Benchmarks®, globally recognized best practices for securing IT systems and data. We lead a global community of IT professionals to continuously evolve these standards and provide products and services to proactively safeguard against emerging threats. Our CIS Hardened Images® provide secure, on-demand, scalable computing environments in the cloud. CIS is home to the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (MS-ISAC®), the trusted resource for cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery for U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial government entities.

Why Center for Internet Security?

CIS Hardened Images® are virtual machine images pre-hardened to the CIS Benchmarks™ and offer built-in secure configuration and compliance with guidance you can trust. CIS Benchmarks™ are prescriptive configuration recommendations for more than 25+ vendor product families and represent the consensus-based effort of cybersecurity experts globally to help protect your systems against threats more confidently. CIS SecureSuite® allows organizations to track compliance with industry frameworks, secure systems with more than 100 configuration guides, and more, all with one powerful Membership. CIS Critical Security Controls® are a prescriptive, prioritized, and simplified set of best practices that you can use to strengthen your cybersecurity posture. CIS CyberMarket® is a cybersecurity marketplace specifically designed for U.S. State, Local, Tribal, Territorial (SLTT) government organizations to find rigorously-vetted, cost-effective cybersecurity solutions from industry-leading vendors.