Gear Up for CIS Critical Security Controls Compliance with Heimdal®

Heimdal's harmonization with CIS’s multi-disciplinary control grid unlocks new offensive and defensive capabilities, empowering customers to balance security against costs, lay the foundation for new compliance standards, while evaluating and improving existing vulnerability workflows.

Heimdal's Coverage of CIS Controls

What is are
CIS Controls?

The CIS Controls framework features a multi-leveled approach to enterprise cyber-defense and risk mitigation, stretching across 18 controls, covering the entire defensescape, from inventory and control of enterprise assets to data protection, malware defense, and security awareness.

Who are
CIS Controls for?

The CIS framework is embraced by thousands of SMBs, enterprises, and MSPs from all over the globe. CIS adoption brings along baselining for data protection and risk management strategies, bolsters overall cybersecurity by cross-referencing existing practices against a global, community-curated ruleset, and lays out the groundwork for additional compliance standards such as PC-DSS, HIPPA, SOC 2, CMMC, NIST, GDPR, FISMA, or ISO/IEC 27001.

Relevant Teams

Compliance

Secops

CIS Controls and Components

The Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) methodology is a community-powered in-depth defense framework, serving corporate and institutions with actionable advice on risk- and vulnerability-based management.

Inventory and control of enterprise assets

Inventory and control of software assets

Data protection

Secure configuration of enterprise assets and software

Account management

Access control management

Continuous vulnerability management

Audit log management

Email & web browser protections

Malware defense

Data recovery

Network infrastructure management

Network monitoring and defense

Security Awareness & skill training

Service provider management

Application software security

Incident response management

Penetration testing

Heimdal^® and the 18 CIS Controls -
Compliance Through Unified Services

CIS coverage and adoption depend on the level and volume of technological disparity. Frictions are imminent whenever there’s a lack of software unification. With Heimdal you can achieve a CIS compliance score of over 60%, the highest in a fast-paced and competitive industry. We help your company prepare with fraud prevention, email security, traffic filtering, malware prevention, ransomware encryption protection, automated patching, privilege escalation and delegation management, application control, managed & endpoint detection and response, secure remote assistance, and more.

Heimdal^®’s Coverage of the CIS Controls


Controls	Protected by Heimdal	Out of Scope
Inventory and control of enterprise assets
Inventory and control of software assets
Secure configuration of enterprise assets and software
Access control management
Continuous vulnerability management
Data protection
Audit log management
Email & web browser protections
Application software security
Incident response management
Network monitoring and defense
Malware defense
Security awareness & skill training
Service provider management
Penetration testing
Data recovery
Account management
Network infrastructure management