Re: CIS benchmarks

[Mike Mychalczuk <Michael.Mychalczuk () netiq com>]

The CIS benchmarks are industry standards.  How the benchmarks are developed is through consensus and collaboration 
with Subject Matter Experts, practitioners, and system administrators.  In addition any regulatory stand / practice 
where applicable are also incorporated for consideration.  There are 3 levels of benchmarks.  Level 1 is the minimum 
and the governing principal is that it will not break production.  Level 3 is the most hardened and usually they will 
break a production installation unless due dilligence has been done ahead of time.

The fundamental principal was to establish a basic set of "due care" baselines so that organizations would have a 
credible and repuable place to begin in establishing configurartion policies.  The benchmarks are used by IT 
organizations globally and the center is supported by both vendors, businesses, and individual contributors through 
yearly subscriptions. The center was launched in partnership with SANS as well as a number of founding security 
software vendors.

I hope this helps.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: Saif El Sherei [mailto:SSherei () npcegypt com]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 04:12 PM
To: Catelijne van Antwerpen <cvanantwerpen () mirabeau nl>
Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com <security-basics () securityfocus com>
Subject: Re: CIS benchmarks

CIS are one of the best sources for security benchmarks along with NIST

CIS standards are recommend by allot of security standards like PCI-DSS. 

Regards,

Saif
OSCP

Sent from my iPhone. 

On May 27, 2011, at 12:58 AM, "Catelijne van Antwerpen" <cvanantwerpen () mirabeau nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm investigating some standard install procedures with the focus on security.
> On the internet I stumbled upon CIS (Center for Internet Security).
> http://www.cisecurity.org/index.cfm
> The have put together a lot of security benchmarks for different kinds of products.
> It looks good at first sight, but I don't how well this organization is known by the community.
>
> Do you know whether these benchmarks are being used frequently?
> Or do you guys use other benchmarks/listen to other authorities?
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Cat.
>
>
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