Cloud Security, Applied: How CIS Uses Its Own Products to Reduce Risk

How many hours does your team spend building, hardening, patching, and validating cloud images by hand?

CIS develops the CIS Benchmarks® and CIS Hardened Images®, and we rely on them to secure our own environments. In this session, experts from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) will show how we apply the CIS Benchmarks to establish secure, consistent configurations across our on-premises and cloud environments, and what it takes to maintain those configurations over time.

You’ll also see where CIS Hardened Images fit into that process, how they can reduce the effort required to deploy securely configured cloud workloads, and how they can support compliance and internal security requirements by giving your team a trusted, pre-hardened starting point.

We'll also share a members-only benefit: CIS SecureSuite^® and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center^® (MS-ISAC^®) Members can request 30 days of access to a CIS Hardened Image on AWS at no charge. Bring your questions for the live Q&A. 

By attending this webinar, you'll learn how to: 

• Reduce risk with a proven baseline. See how CIS applies the CIS Benchmarks to keep configurations secure and consistent across its own on-premises and cloud environments, so you can apply the same approach.
• Keep configurations from drifting. Understand what it takes to maintain, validate, and patch secure configurations over time, and where the effort adds up.
• Know the true cost of DIY hardening. Get a clear view of the work behind building and maintaining hardened images in-house before you commit your team’s time.
• Cut manual work without lowering the bar. Learn how CIS Hardened Images can reduce operational effort while supporting security and compliance goals.
• Make the build-or-buy call with confidence. Get a simple way to decide when a pre-hardened image makes more sense than manual hardening for your team.
• Know exactly what you’re deploying. Find out why image provenance matters for software supply chain security, and what to ask before an image reaches production.
• Try it free. CIS SecureSuite and MS-ISAC Members can request 30 days of no-charge access to a CIS Hardened Image on AWS. Everyone can find CIS Hardened Images in their cloud marketplace. Everyone can find CIS Hardened Images in the AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud marketplaces. 

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About Our Presenters

Don Freeley
VP of IT Services

Don Freeley is a technologist with more than 25 years of experience leading architecture, engineering, and IT organizations. As Vice President of Information Technology Services, he is responsible for the delivery of innovative, reliable, and secure computing environments that support and enhance CIS’s global mission.

In addition to managing daily technology operations, Freeley provides strategic leadership for a fast-growing company globally recognized as a leader in cybersecurity. Prior to joining CIS in 2023, he led IT, Architecture, and Engineering organizations at global companies, helping public and private sector organizations deploy and use technology securely at scale.