In Safeguard 11.2, we talked about making sure backups happen automatically and frequently enough to meet the needs of the business. Once those copies exist, however, another question immediately follows. How are you protecting them? CIS Safeguard 11.3, Protect Recovery Data, addresses that question. The basic expectation is that recovery data should receive protections equivalent to the original data. If sensitive information requires encryption, restricted access, or other safeguards in...
CIS IG1 Control 10.1: Table Stakes, but Only If It Can Catch What’s Actually Out There
Deploy and Maintain Anti-Malware Software Anti-malware is the one security control almost every business already believes it has. So the...
CIS IG1 Control 9.2: Hanging Up the Call Before It Connects
Use DNS Filtering Services Almost everything malicious has to make a phone call. A phishing link has to resolve to a web address. Malware has...
CIS IG1 Control 9.1: An Unsupported Application Is One the Vendor Has Stopped Defending
Ensure Use of Only Fully Supported Browsers and Email Clients Your web browser and your email client are the two applications your people use most,...
CIS IG1 Control 8.3: The Log You Need Is Always the One That Already Rolled Off
Ensure Adequate Audit Log Storage Here's a pattern that repeats in incident after incident. The investigation finally pinpoints the moment that...
CIS IG1 Control 8.2: A Log You Can’t Reach Is a Log You Can’t Trust
Collect Audit Logs There's a predictable early move in a lot of intrusions: once an attacker is on a machine, they clear its local logs. If the only...
CIS IG1 Control 8.1: The Question Every Investigation Starts With
Establish and Maintain an Audit Log Management Process Every security investigation starts with the same question: what actually happened? In a lot...
Top Technology Concerns CEOs Are Facing (And Why the Real Risk Isn’t the Technology)
The Top Technology Concerns CEOs Are Facing Today (And Why the Real Risk Isn't the Technology) If you'd asked most CEOs a few years ago what kept...
CIS IG1 Control 7.4: Perform Automated Application Patch Management
Updates You're Probably Not Catching Your operating system is probably the best-patched software on your computers. Modern Windows and macOS update...
CIS IG1 Control 7.3: Perform Automated Operating System Patch Management
Why Patching Should Be a System, Not a Habit Almost no one argues against patching. Every leader I talk to already knows that unpatched systems are...
