Implementing the CIS 20 Critical Security Controls: Building Upon Foundational Cyber Hygiene

Most successful cyber attacks exploit known vulnerabilities for which patches are available, or take advantage of weak configuration settings that could have been easily hardened. You can significantly lower the risk of being victimized by this type of common, preventable attack by adopting the...

Implementing the CIS 20 Critical Security Controls: Slash Risk of Cyber Attacks by 85%

If a CISO needed to cut cyber attack risk by 85%, how would this security chief go about accomplishing that? Would the CISO even know where to begin? It’s safe to say that such a mandate would be considered daunting, and maybe even overwhelming. CISOs are scrambling to protect IT infrastructures...

Webcast Q&A: Automating the CIS Critical Security Controls

Qualys Product Management Director Tim White and SANS Institute Analyst John Pescatore did a deep dive into the Center for Internet Security’s Critical Security Controls during a recent webcast, and answered questions from audience members about these 20 foundational security practices, and about...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Update

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from vendo...

Achieve Continuous Security and Compliance with the CIS Critical Security Controls

For InfoSec pros, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the constant noise from cybersecurity industry players — vendors, research firms, consultants, industry groups, government regulators and media outlets. A good antidote for this hyperactive chatter is to refocus on foundational InfoSec practices...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Update

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with commonly adhered to security standards and regulations. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as ones based on security guidelines from vendors such as Microsoft and VMware...

UPDATE: Prowler 1.3!

PenTestIT RSS Feed My older post about Prowler can be found here. This post is about an update made to the AWS CIS Benchmark Tool - Prowler 1.3! What is Prowler? Prowler is a tool for AWS security assessment, auditing and hardening. It follows guidelines of the CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations...

Prowler - Tool for AWS Security Assessment, Auditing And Hardening

Tool based on AWS-CLI commands for AWS account security assessment and hardening, following guidelines of the CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark 1.1 Features It covers hardening and security best practices for all AWS regions related to: Identity and Access Management 24 checks Logging...

AWS CIS Benchmark Tool: Prowler

Tool based on AWS-CLI commands for AWS account hardening, following guidelines of the CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark 1.1 . It covers hardening and security best practices for all regions related to: Identity and Access Management 24 checks Logging 8 checks Monitoring 15 checks...

The CIS Critical Security Controls Series

What are the CIS Critical Security Controls? The Center for Internet Security CIS Top 20 Critical Security Controls previously known as the SANS Top 20 Critical Security Controls, is an industry-leading way to answer your key security question: "How can I be prepared to stop known attacks?" The...

The CIS Critical Controls Explained - Control 7: Email and Web browser protection

This blog is a continuation of our blog post series around the CIS Critical Controls. The biggest threat surface in any organization is its workstations. This is the reason so many of the CIS Critical Security Controls relate to workstation and user-focused endpoint security. It is also the reaso...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Update

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with commonly adhered to security standards and regulations. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as ones based on security guidelines from vendors such as Microsoft and VMware...

Nix-Auditor - Nix Audit Made Easier

A script to audit linux and unix distributions based mainly on the CIS standards and universal linux hardening guidelines. The value it brings to your auditing set of tools is: Speed - one can audit OS in less than 120 seconds and get report Accuracy - tested on CentOS and RedHat with 100% accura...

The CIS Critical Security Controls Explained - Control 2: Inventory of Authorized and Unauthorized Software

As I mentioned in our last post, the 20 critical controls are divided into System, Network, and Application families in order to simplify analysis and implementation. This also allows partial implementation of the controls by security program developers who aren't building a program from scratch,...

Docker Compliance Check

Runs the Docker Compliance Check. These tests are inspired by the CIS Docker Benchmark. Copyright C 2017 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This...

Using CIS Controls To Stop Your Network From Falling in With the Wrong Crowd

Earlier this month Kyle Flaherty wrote a post on the Rapid7 Community Blog about how Rapid7 came out on top for coverage of the Center for Internet Security CIS Top 20 Security Controls. In light of recent DDoS events Id like to take a little time to discuss at a high level what the controls are,...

Lynis 2.3.0 - Security Auditing Tool for Unix/Linux Systems

We are excited to announce this major release of auditing tool Lynis. Several big changes have been made to core functions of Lynis. These changes are the next of simplification improvements we made. There is a risk of breaking your existing configuration. Lynis is an open source security auditin...

drchrono: node.drchrono.com - Information Disclosure and Windows Host Exposed

This host has the following TCP ports open; 21 - FTP 22 - SSH 135 - Windows RPC Dynamic 445 - Microsoft DS 3389 - Remote Desktop 5986 - PowerShell Remoting 47001 - WinRM The server appears to be secured well on the whole. However the services SSH and FTP do all give out some information. Please s...

Microsoft Kernel-Mode Drivers Privilege Elevation Vulnerabilities (3158222)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS16-062. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only...

CVE-2016-1343

Cisco Information Server (CIS) 6.2 is affected by an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in the XML parser, where external entity declarations combined with an entity reference can allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (CPU/memory). Exploitation details a...