Product Vendor
CIS SecureSuite® Product Vendor Membership provides licensing rights to the CIS Benchmarks™ and/or CIS Critical Security Controls for commercial use. Through the CIS SecureSuite Product Vendor Membership, which includes Services and Consulting as well as End User Organization Membership rights, you can can integrate globally recognized and widely referenced security best practices into your product offerings, greatly simplifying the security and compliance journey of your customers.
For Members integrating CIS Benchmarks into their products, this Membership includes the requirement to obtain CIS Benchmarks Certification.
By becoming a Product Vendor Member, you can integrate CIS Benchmarks for automated assessment and/or remediation into your product offerings with CIS Benchmarks Certification.
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CIS Product Vendor Membership Benefits
Along with providing the only licensing rights to integrate the trusted, globally recognized CIS Benchmarks and/or CIS Controls into your product and service offerings, CIS SecureSuite Product Vendor Membership includes:- The ability to promote your integration of CIS best practices through a dedicated profile page on the CIS website
- Exclusive rights for CIS Benchmarks Certification, ensuring your products accurately assess, remediate for, and/or are configured to the CIS Benchmarks
- Tier one technical product support
- A dedicated CIS Account Manager
- For select tiers, Technical Account Manager services
- All of the benefits and licensing rights of CIS SecureSuite End User Membership
- All of the benefits and licensing rights of CIS SecureSuite Services and Consulting Membership, including eligibility to obtain CIS Controls Accreditation
In addition to these benefits and rights, Product Vendor Membership is the only CIS SecureSuite Membership that includes marketing support.
Marketing and Branding Benefits
CIS Provides:
- A dedicated vendor profile page on CIS’s website, which includes Member logo, Member tool name, Member website homepage URL, CIS Benchmarks Certification status, and/or CIS Controls Accreditation status
- Permission to use specialized, applicable CIS SecureSuite Product Vendor Member badges
- Templates for press releases and approved marketing language
- One 30-minute Marketing consultation to review CIS pre-approved marketing materials, marketing language, and suggested marketing activities to use the pre-approved materials and language
- Content and messaging review of one piece of Member-written marketing content on CIS-related products per year
- CIS subject matter expert (SME) to guest present at a Member-hosted webinar or mutually agreed upon industry event, once per year, pending CIS SME availability
- Engagement with Member’s CIS-related posts on LinkedIn or X (formerly known as Twitter), when Member tags the CIS account once per quarter.
- One case study published on the CIS website and cross-promoted
Additional benefits are available for select Membership Tiers (Tiers 6-8):
- CIS subject matter expert (SME) to guest present at a Member-hosted webinar or mutually agreed upon industry event, total twice per year pending CIS SME availability
- Opportunity to contribute CIS subject matter expertise to Member-led marketing content on CIS-related products, such as a guide, blog post, or video, twice per year
