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.
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
IT
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