Colleges and universities that are Institutional Members of EDUCAUSE receive a 50% discount on their annual CIS Membership fees. The CIS Category 3 Membership fee - for end-user organizations that have 100 or more employees - is $9,000 per year. However, the annual CIS Membership fee for EDUCAUSE Institutional Members is discounted to $4,500. The discount is a benefit of the partnership between The Center for Internet Security and EDUCAUSE. Through this partnership, CIS and EDUCAUSE: Encourage adoption of widely-accepted consensus standards (the CIS Benchmarks) for system security configuration in colleges and universities. Expand participation in the CIS consensus-development process by security specialists at EDUCAUSE member institutions to ensure that needs unique to colleges and universities are met. Establish baseline standards for security configuration that can be presented to software vendors and hardware suppliers as default security configurations for systems that colleges and universities purchase. Provide configuration standards that buyers can use when requiring application software developers and vendors to demonstrate full application functionality on hardened (configured) software platforms. The discount offer applies only to EDUCAUSE Institutional Members (the colleges & universities), not to any other EDUCAUSE member organizations. Click Here to go to the EDUCAUSE web site.

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