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The events of 2020 accelerated many organizations’ plans for digital transformation, compelling them to adopt cloud computing and virtualization in support of remote work. It appears that those changes will last long after 2020. In April 2020, for instance, Gartner revealed that 74% of CFOs and finance leaders intended to move at least 5% of previously on-site workforce to permanently remote positions following the pandemic. Several months later, Forbes reported that the percentage of permanent remote workers was expected to double in 2021. Such growth is expected to continue over the next few years, eventually resulting in 70% of the workforce working remotely at least five days a month by 2025.
The changes discussed above have complicated digital security for many organizations. Remote work means new types of devices are connecting to the corporate network in ever-increasing growing numbers. The ways in which organizations are pursuing their digital security are naturally changing in response.
This reality is evident in the release of the Center for Internet Security’s Critical Security Controls (CIS Controls) v8. As articulated on the Center for Internet Security’s website, the CIS Controls are a set of actions that organizations can use to defend themselves against some of the most prevalent types of digital attacks today. The security measures do this by providing infosec personnel with a starting point for their digital defenses. Using built-in prioritization, the CIS Controls then help professionals to focus on actions that will have the greatest impact in alleviating digital risk in the organization. They also include additional actions that security teams can use to further reduce sources of digital risk confronting their employers.
Version 8 of the CIS Controls breaks with the past by taking the events of 2020 into account. It does this by including requirements around the management of cloud and mobile technologies. (The version even comes with an entirely new security measure, CIS Control 15: Service Provider Management, as a means of helping organizations to manage their service providers.) It also represents a streamlined set of security recommendations, as it includes fewer top-level Controls and Safeguards (formerly Sub-Controls) at 18 and 153, respectively.
Not everything in Version 8 is new, however. The most recent version keeps with a recent trend of organizing the CIS Controls “by activity vs. how things are managed,” as the Center for Internet Security explained it in a blog post. This effort specifically involves grouping each security measure into one of three Implementation Groups (IGs) as a means of helping organizations to prioritize the implementation of the CIS Controls. IG1 consists of basic hygiene that security personnel can use to defend their organizations against some of the most common types of attacks. This category precedes IG2, which includes even more security recommendations, and IG3, which encapsulates all Controls and Safeguards.
These different levels of priority are evident in the CIS Controls themselves. Provided below is a list of all 18 measures included in Version 8:
To build on this overview, I will be going into more depth regarding how ReliaQuest and our GreyMatter platform enabling Open XDR-as-a-Service delivers outcomes mapped to these Controls over the next few months.
In the meantime, for more information about the CIS Controls, click here: https://www.cisecurity.org/controls/.