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Nearly 8 Billion Attempts to Access Malicious Sites Blocked

The Center for Internet Security Releases Its Year in Review

EAST GREENBUSH. N.Y., April 13, 2023 – The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS®) has released its 2022 Year in Review, highlighting tremendous growth, major accomplishments, and increasing impact on the state of cybersecurity globally.

As cyber threats continue to rise, CIS has remained a leader in promoting effective cybersecurity among U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial organizations, as well as offering products, services, and best practices to enhance the security of small to medium-sized businesses.

Some of the Year in Review highlights include:

  • The growth of the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (MS-ISAC®) to over 14,000 state and local government organizations
  • Malicious Domain Blocking and Reporting (MDBR), a web security service funded by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), blocked nearly 8 billion attempts to access malicious sites
  • Endpoint Security Services (ESS) – 200,000 endpoints were ordered in 2022, and Puerto Rico successfully blocked nearly 4,000 attacks using ESS
  • Release of The Essential Guide to Election Security – downloaded 1,100 times
  • K-12 Report downloaded in 46 states and 19 countries
  • CIS Critical Security Controls ®  are increasingly referenced in state legislation as security best practices
  • CIS BenchmarksTM downloaded more than one million times in 2022

“CIS continues to increase focus on what we refer to as the “cyber underserved”—organizations with limited funding and/or technical resources to be able to meet the challenges of providing adequate cyber protection,” said John Gilligan, President and CEO of the Center for Internet Security. “I am enormously proud of the positive impact that CIS continues to have on our global community.”

For more information, contact CIS Media Relations Manager, Kelly Wyland, at [email protected] or (518) 256-6978.

About IST

The Institute for Security and Technology (IST) designs and advances solutions to the world’s toughest emerging security threats. We are a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area dedicated to advancing solutions to critical cyber and national security challenges. For more information, visit: securityandtechnology.org or follow us on Twitter: @IST_org.

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About CIS

The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS®) makes the connected world a safer place for people, businesses, and governments through our core competencies of collaboration and innovation. We are a community-driven nonprofit, responsible for the CIS Critical Security Controls® and CIS Benchmarks™, globally recognized best practices for securing IT systems and data. We lead a global community of IT professionals to continuously evolve these standards and provide products and services to proactively safeguard against emerging threats. Our CIS Hardened Images® provide secure, on-demand, scalable computing environments in the cloud. CIS is home to the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (MS-ISAC®), the trusted resource for cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery for U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) government entities, and the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (EI-ISAC®), which supports the rapidly changing cybersecurity needs of U.S. election offices. To learn more, visit CISecurity.org or follow us on Twitter: @CISecurity.