Collective Cyber Defense for Businesses
The Problem: Common Threats, Inconsistent Defense
Cyber adversaries collaborate globally. They share tactics, infrastructure, and tools across criminal networks, allowing attacks to scale quickly and repeatedly exploit the same weaknesses like misconfigurations, unpatched systems, and weak or compromised credentials.
Yet many organizations still struggle to address these known issues. Talent shortages, fragmented security programs, and increasingly complex hybrid and cloud environments make it difficult to apply security safeguards consistently.
Collective Cyber Defense: Community as a Force Multiplier
To support organizations at every stage of their security journey, CIS provides cost‑effective, high‑impact cybersecurity tools and services that enable organizations of all sizes to adopt community‑developed best practices without added complexity or budgets. These offerings transform best practices into repeatable, defensible security outcomes across industries.
Common Safeguards, Stronger Business Security
Collective Cyber Defense depends on shared action across the private sector. To be effective, community‑driven standards must be paired with practical tooling that helps businesses across industries implement, assess, and maintain common security safeguards consistently.
This reflects Pillar 2: Common Safeguards and Consistent Implementation of the Collective Cyber Defense approach by focusing on a shared foundation of trusted best practices and a commitment to consistent, scalable adoption across organizations of all sizes.
CIS SecureSuite provides access to tooling and resources organizations need to operationalize the CIS Critical Security Controls and CIS Benchmarks across their environments. It connects community-developed standards to real-world implementation, helping organizations move from "what should we do?" to "how well are we doing it?"
Assess and Measure with CIS‑CAT Pro Assessor
CIS‑CAT Pro Assessor enables organizations to:
- Assess systems against CIS Benchmarks
- Identify configuration gaps and risk areas
- Measure alignment with security baselines over time
By providing consistent, repeatable assessments, CIS‑CAT Pro helps organizations validate their implementation of widely adopted, community-developed standards and prioritize remediation efforts.
This measurable approach supports Collective Cyber Defense by enabling businesses to assess risk using a common language and comparable benchmarks regardless of sector.
Centralize Implementation with the CIS SecureSuite Platform
The CIS SecureSuite Platform brings tooling together in one place, helping teams:
- Assess against the CIS CIS Controls
- Demonstrate conformance CIS Benchmarks
- Support consistent implementation across teams and technologies
By centralizing assessment and alignment, the Platform reinforces another core pillar of Collective Cyber Defense: scalable, repeatable implementation of common safeguards across diverse business environments.
Accelerate Deployment with CIS Build Kits
Reduced Complexity: CIS Build Kits automate the remediation process, eliminating the need for manual configuration and reducing your risk of errors
Increased Efficiency: By automating configurations, CIS Build Kits save you valuable time and resources
Improved Accuracy: CIS Build Kits ensure that your systems are configured according to the CIS Benchmarks, reducing the likelihood of security gaps while helping you to comply with numerous security industry regulations
Explore CIS SecureSuite Membership
Learn more about CIS SecureSuite in an upcoming webinar.