BrandPost: NGINX and CIS Hardened Images Equals Security and Efficiency
Just less than 25% of the internet’s busiest websites – including Dropbox, Netflix, and WordPress.com – served or proxied NGNIX in July 2021, according to Netcraft. But, how can organizations harden this popular open-source web server and their virtual machine (VM) images? The answer is CIS NGINX Hardened Images.At the Center for Internet Security (CIS), we develop globally-recognized cybersecurity best practices, including the CIS Benchmarks. These guidelines provide prescriptive guidance to securely configure various technologies, including operating systems and web servers. Then, CIS takes it a step further for the cloud by hardening VM images to the Benchmark recommendations and offers them in public cloud marketplaces. These VMs are the CIS Hardened Images. They can help secure operating systems, applications, containers, and web servers, notably NGINX.To read this article in full, please click here
Just less than 25% of the internet’s busiest websites – including Dropbox, Netflix, and WordPress.com – served or proxied NGNIX in July 2021, according to Netcraft. But, how can organizations harden this popular open-source web server and their virtual machine (VM) images? The answer is CIS NGINX Hardened Images.
At the Center for Internet Security (CIS), we develop globally-recognized cybersecurity best practices, including the CIS Benchmarks. These guidelines provide prescriptive guidance to securely configure various technologies, including operating systems and web servers. Then, CIS takes it a step further for the cloud by hardening VM images to the Benchmark recommendations and offers them in public cloud marketplaces. These VMs are the CIS Hardened Images. They can help secure operating systems, applications, containers, and web servers, notably NGINX.
