Starting Secure in the Cloud with CIS Hardened Images

Cloud misconfigurations remain a leading cause of security incidents, even as organizations continue to accelerate the migration of critical workloads to public cloud platforms. In this presentation, which was part of the Cloud Security Track during the recent SANS Spring Cyber Solutions Fest, we’ll show how teams can reduce risk from the start by deploying CIS Hardened Images®, pre-configured virtual machine images built to the consensus-based recommendations of the CIS Benchmarks®.  

• How CIS Hardened Images help organizations take ownership of their responsibilities within the cloud shared responsibility model
• How CIS Hardened Images and other cloud security resources from the Center for Internet Security® (CIS®) help organizations like yours to avoid insecure default configurations and support compliance-aligned security practices without slowing deployment
• Which practical guidance you can begin using today to incorporate CIS Hardened Images into your cloud environment along with security workflows for starting secure, scaling consistently, and reducing the operational burden of manual hardening

Learn from CIS experts how CIS Hardened Images can help your organization start secure and stay secure when migrating workloads to cloud environments.