CIS SecureSuite 101: Step-by-Step Guidance to System Hardening

This four-week virtual training series provides step-by-step guidance on how to get the most out of your CIS SecureSuite Membership. We'll start with the basics of accessing your Membership resources and take you all the way through deploying configuration settings into your build environment.

CIS is here to help! This virtual training series, exclusively for our small business and SLTT members, will provide step-by-step guidance to get the most out of CIS SecureSuite Membership.

We'll help you learn how to harden systems one step at a time in this four-week course. We'll start with the basics of accessing your Membership resources and take you all the way through deploying configuration settings into your production environment.

Session 1: First Steps and Choosing a System to Harden

We’ll get you started with access to our community platform, CIS WorkBench. We will then help you understand which resources should be the target of your initial scans with CIS-CAT Pro Assessor, based on your environment. You’ll discover how the CIS Controls can help identify which systems to target for hardening first. You’ll learn:

• How to access CIS WorkBench
• Where to access CIS Benchmarks in multiple formats
• Which target system(s) to harden first

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Session 2: Assess Your Current Compliance

Start with a baseline scan to understand how your system is configured today. In this session, we’ll explain how to assess a target system to see how it conforms to the security recommendations of the CIS Benchmark. You’ll learn:

• How to install and use CIS-CAT Pro Assessor V4
• Steps for scanning Windows and Cisco devices
• How to generate an HTML report that has scan findings/actionable intelligence

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