BrandPost: New Hardened VMs from CIS: Graviton2 and Windows 2019 STIG
The Center for Internet Security (CIS) has released three new CIS Hardened Images. CIS built two of these new hardened virtual machines (VMs) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Graviton2 processors: CIS Hardened Images for Ubuntu Linux 20.04 and Amazon Linux 2. The third hardened VM for Microsoft Windows 2019 STIG is available on the AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Marketplaces.View all CIS Hardened Images Why Use CIS Hardened VMs? CIS Hardened Images bring the globally recognized standards of the CIS Benchmarks to the cloud. CIS Benchmarks are consensus-based secure configuration guidelines. They are an acceptable standard to help meet compliance for: HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST, DoD Cloud Computing SRG, and FedRAMP. Because CIS builds these hardened VMs to CIS Benchmark standards, they can also help meet compliance to these frameworks.To read this article in full, please click here
The Center for Internet Security (CIS) has released three new CIS Hardened Images. CIS built two of these new hardened virtual machines (VMs) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Graviton2 processors: CIS Hardened Images for Ubuntu Linux 20.04 and Amazon Linux 2. The third hardened VM for Microsoft Windows 2019 STIG is available on the AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Marketplaces.
View all CIS Hardened Images
Why Use CIS Hardened VMs?
CIS Hardened Images bring the globally recognized standards of the CIS Benchmarks to the cloud. CIS Benchmarks are consensus-based secure configuration guidelines. They are an acceptable standard to help meet compliance for: HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST, DoD Cloud Computing SRG, and FedRAMP. Because CIS builds these hardened VMs to CIS Benchmark standards, they can also help meet compliance to these frameworks.
