CIS-CAT® Pro
A powerful tool for automating CIS Benchmark assessment and reporting
The CIS Benchmarks are a powerful set of best practices to help your organization ensure its IT systems, software, networks, and cloud infrastructure are securely configured. Testing those configurations can be a labor-intensive process – and that can be a challenge for many organizations.
As a CIS SecureSuite Member, you gain access to tools that help make assessing and reporting significantly easier and more effective.
Our configuration assessment tool, CIS-CAT Pro, turns the best practices of the CIS Benchmarks and CIS Controls into actionable insights by scanning systems and reporting on their levels of compliance.
Compatible with tailored CIS Benchmarks
Customize CIS Benchmarks utilizing CIS WorkBench, export them into automated content, and use them to assess your compliance with key security requirements.
Reports mapped to the CIS Critical Security Controls (CIS Controls)
Evaluate your target system security with reports that map your systems' results to the CIS Controls. Prioritize issue response based on where results fall in the three Implementation Groups.
Part of CIS SecureSuite
Gain access to scalable, customizable tools and resources to evaluate your organization's unique security needs. Dedicated CIS SecureSuite Member Success Managers and enhanced technical support are available to help.
Free assessment tool available
Use the unlimited scans available to you with CIS-CAT Lite, a free assessment tool, to evaluate the configurations of select technologies.
Start assessing your configuration to CIS Benchmarks today!
Get access to CIS-CAT Pro through CIS SecureSuite Membership to start scanning systems and view reporting.
Compatible with tailored CIS Benchmarks
Customize CIS Benchmarks utilizing CIS WorkBench, export them into automated content, and use them to assess your compliance with key security requirements.
Reports mapped to the CIS Critical Security Controls (CIS Controls)
Evaluate your target system security with reports that map your systems' results to the CIS Controls. Prioritize issue response based on where results fall in the three Implementation Groups.
Part of CIS SecureSuite
Gain access to scalable, customizable tools and resources to evaluate your organization's unique security needs. Dedicated CIS SecureSuite Member Success Managers and enhanced technical support are available to help.
Free assessment tool available
Use the unlimited scans available to you with CIS-CAT Lite, a free assessment tool, to evaluate the configurations of select technologies.
Start assessing your configuration to CIS Benchmarks today!
Get access to CIS-CAT Pro through CIS SecureSuite Membership to start scanning systems and view reporting.
Learn what is included in the CIS-CAT Pro
Think of CIS-CAT Pro as a trusty tool that can assist you on your journey to creating a more secure technology environment. Evaluate your configuration settings against the recommendations in the CIS Benchmarks with CIS-CAT Pro Assessor. View your results and track configuration drift with CIS-CAT Pro Dashboard - a user-friendly interface that is designed to ingest CIS-CAT Pro Assessor results. The Dashboard also coordinates with the CIS-CAT Pro Assessor to perform single, remote configuration settings. For additional protection use the CIS Controls Assessment Model (CIS Controls v7.1) to achieve essential cyber hygiene by evaluating your configurations against Implementation Group 1 (IG1) of the CIS Critical Security Controls v7.1
CIS-CAT Pro Assessor
CIS-CAT Pro Assessor evaluates the cybersecurity posture of a system against recommended policy settings. The tool helps organizations save time and resources by employing automated content with policy setting recommendations based on 100+ globally recognized CIS Benchmarks.
The tool is maintained at a location under each Member’s control. Whether your organization’s use is virtual, cloud, in-network, or on a local machine, CIS-CAT Pro helps ensure compliance to policies. CIS-CAT Pro Assessor v4 includes functions to assess remote or local target systems whether they reside in the cloud or on-premises.
CIS-CAT Pro Dashboard
CIS-CAT Pro Dashboard is a web-based application that provides a graphical interface for viewing assessment results generated by CIS-CAT Pro Assessor.
View overall or Benchmark-specific average configuration scores in CIS-CAT Pro Dashboard. View configuration scores by each individual CIS Benchmark, with options to view by CIS Critical Security Controls for annotated Benchmark content. It is also possible to view the configuration results by user-defined tags that help with grouping target systems and applying exceptions.
CIS-CAT Pro Dashboard – Remote Assessment
CIS-CAT Pro Dashboard allows for single, on-demand configuration assessments against a single, remote target system.
The remote assessment feature within CIS-CAT Pro dashboard supports assessments of operating systems and some applications.
CIS Controls Assessment Module
With the CIS Controls Assessment Module, assess target machines against the CIS Controls v7.1 Implementation Group 1 (IG1) using CIS-CAT Pro. The CIS Controls Assessment Module offers automated endpoint assessment against Microsoft Windows 10 and server environments. It consists of a scanning component as well as manual questions to assess compliance.
To learn more about this CIS-CAT Pro feature, please view our webinar recording: Introducing the CIS Controls Assessment Module.
Start assessing your configuration to CIS Benchmarks today!
Get access to CIS-CAT Pro through CIS SecureSuite Membership to start scanning systems and view reporting.
Want to try CIS-CAT before purchasing CIS SecureSuite?
With CIS-CAT Lite you get access to unlimited scans, enabling you to instantly check your systems against select CIS Benchmarks, receive a compliance score, and more!
FAQs
We've answered some common questions about CIS-CAT Pro Assessor and CIS-CAT Pro Dashboard.
