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CIS Benchmarks Cloud

CIS configuration benchmarks tailored to cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP, specifying secure settings for cloud accounts and services. They give cloud teams a concrete, checkable baseline for hardening their environments.

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Configuration Assessment

Checking cloud resource configurations against secure-configuration standards and benchmarks to find misconfigurations, such as public exposure, disabled logging, or weak settings, that create risk. It is the core function behind cloud posture management.

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