CIS Linux Certification

As a proud member of the CIS (Center for Internet Security) SecureSuite® program, Onyx Point is excited to announce that we now offer SIMP Enterprise Linux Server baselines certified by CIS to enforce and remediate CIS Benchmarks™. View all of our certified baselines

CIS Windows Certification

As a proud member of the CIS (Center for Internet Security) SecureSuite® program, Onyx Point is excited to announce that we now offer SIMP Windows Server baselines certified by CIS to enforce and remediate CIS Benchmarks™.

SIMP 6.4 has achieved CIS Certification for Linux platforms

Onyx Point, LLC, announced today that its SIMP Product has been certified by CIS Benchmarks ™ to enforce the configuration status of Operating Systems against the consensus-based best practice standards contained within the following benchmarks:

• CIS Benchmark for CIS CentOS Linux 7 Benchmark, v2.2.0, Level 1 Server
• CIS Benchmark for CIS CentOS Linux 7 Benchmark, v2.2.0, Level 2 Server
• CIS Benchmark for CIS CentOS Linux 7 Benchmark, v2.2.0, Level 1 Workstation
• CIS Benchmark for CIS CentOS Linux 7 Benchmark, v2.2.0, Level 2 Workstation
• CIS Benchmark for Oracle Linux 7 v2.1.0, Level 1 – Workstation Profile
• CIS Benchmark for Oracle Linux 7 v2.1.0, Level 2 – Workstation Profile
• CIS Benchmark for Oracle Linux 7 v2.1.0, Level 1 – Server Profile
• CIS Benchmark for Oracle Linux 7 v2.1.0, Level 2 – Server Profile
• CIS Benchmark for Red Hat Enterprise Linux v2.2.0, Level 1 – Workstation Profile
• CIS Benchmark for Red Hat Enterprise Linux v2.2.0, Level 2 – Workstation Profile
• CIS Benchmark for Red Hat Enterprise Linux v2.2.0, Level 1 – Server Profile
• CIS Benchmark for Red Hat Enterprise Linux v2.2.0, Level 2 – Server Profile

Organizations that leverage SIMP can now ensure that the configurations of their critical assets align with the CIS Benchmarks consensus-based practice standards.†

SIMP is a unified security and compliance product that contains enforcement, remediation, and reporting capabilities for Linux and Windows. SIMP can drive configuration management systems such as Puppet as well as report on your infrastructure via a web user interface.

This certification is issued by CIS ® (Center for Internet Security, Inc.) “Cybersecurity challenges are mounting daily, which makes the need for standard configurations imperative. By certifying its product with CIS, Onyx Point, LLC has demonstrated its commitment to actively solve the foundational problem of ensuring standard configurations are used throughout a given enterprise,” said Curtis Dukes, CIS Executive Vice President of Security Best Practices & Automation Group.

† When running the Enterprise or Lite editions, at least version 1.0.0 of the simp_cis_profiles module, enforcing the cis:el7:v2.2.0 SCE profile, and with the exceptions documented under the modules’s README.md

About CIS
CIS® (Center for Internet Security) is a forward-thinking, non-profit entity that harnesses the power of a global IT community to safeguard private and public organizations against cybersecurity threats. CIS Controls™ and CIS Benchmarks™ are the global standard and recognized best practices for securing IT systems and data against the most pervasive attacks. These proven guidelines are continuously refined and verified by a volunteer, global community of experienced IT professionals. CIS is home to the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (MS-ISAC®), the go-to resource for cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery for U.S. State, local, tribal, and territorial government entities. To learn more, visit CISecurity.org or follow CIS on Twitter: @CISecurity.

Onyx Point Inc Becomes A CIS SecureSuite Member

Onyx Point, LLC. today announced that it has become a CIS SecureSuite member. Through this membership, Onyx Point, LLC. is further bolstering its cybersecurity defenses by leveraging CIS SecureSuite resources that include CIS Benchmarks, consensus-based, internationally recognized security configuration resources, including CIS-CAT Pro, and CIS Controls, a set of cyber practices, developed by experts around the world, to stop today’s most pervasive and dangerous cyber attacks.