Security News > 2022 > February > How configuration assessments help improve cyber defenses
These days, information technology and information security professionals know this all too well, especially when it comes to configuration assessments.
To reduce opportunities for hackers, organizations should perform configuration assessments regularly.
The CIS Benchmarks are consensus-developed, best practice secure configuration guidelines used to harden target systems.
To understand how your system configurations conform to the CIS Benchmarks, you can use the CIS Configuration Assessment Tool, which scans against a target system's configuration settings and reports its compliance to the corresponding Benchmark.
CIS-CAT Pro Assessor v4 supports more than 80 CIS Benchmarks for automated configuration assessments and remote endpoints.
To experience how CIS-CAT works, try CIS-CAT Lite, our free configuration assessment tool.