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Why Partner With CIS?

CIS Hardened Images® Benefits

Secure, on-demand, and scalable hardened virtual machine images

Configured to globally-recognized cybersecurity standard

Drastically reduce common threats such as malware, insufficient authorization, and remote intrusion

Benefits Of Working With CIS

Top 25 marketplace ISV with exponentially growing consumption since launch

Dedicated CIS staff and programs to support CSP Marketplace reseller and channel motions

Leverage CIS's pre-hardened virtual machine images as a secure starting point for your customers' cloud infrastructure

Market Benefits

Address a $5B+ market with 15-18% projected YoY growth

Solve some of the biggest blind spots confronting your customers in the cloud

Available for popular OSes, containers, and applications across all major CSPs

Offer access to CIS Hardened Images® that deliver a secure cloud experience by bringing the globally recognized security configuration recommendations of the CIS Benchmarks™ to the cloud. Securely pre-configured virtual machine (VM) images are available to spin up immediately from the major cloud provider marketplaces.

A hardened virtual image is much more secure than a standard image. CIS Hardened Images help mitigate common threats such as malware, insufficient authorization, and remote intrusion. They provide users with a secure, on-demand, scalable computing environments that eliminates upfront hardware investments, provides reporting to demonstrate compliance, and ensures ongoing secure configuration management.

Backed by a global community of cybersecurity experts and built off of the base image provided by CSPs, CIS Hardened Images seamlessly integrate into an organization’s security procedures. Because they’re in an IaaS environment, CIS Hardened Images can help with the host infrastructure part of the shared responsibility model for cloud security and can provide a secure starting point for spinning up any virtual machine.

CIS Hardened Images are available for Cloud Reseller Partners in Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Marketplaces. Fill out the form to connect with our cloud channel team about reseller opportunities.

 

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