{"id":1100,"date":"2020-03-31T11:19:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T11:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2020-04-03T13:46:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T13:46:24","slug":"sophos-cloud-optix-awarded-cis-benchmarks-certification-for-aws-azure-and-gcp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/2020\/03\/products\/sophos-cloud-optix-awarded-cis-benchmarks-certification-for-aws-azure-and-gcp\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophos Cloud Optix Awarded CIS Benchmarks Certification for AWS, Azure, and GCP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sophos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisecurity.org\/partner\/sophos\/\">Cloud Optix has now been certified by CIS<\/a> (Center for Internet Security) to accurately assess AWS, Azure, and GCP (Google Cloud Platform) environments based on best practices for secure configuration.<\/p>\n<p>Developed through a unique consensus-based process comprised of cybersecurity professionals and subject matter experts around the world, CIS Benchmarks are recommended as industry-accepted system hardening standards and are used by organizations in meeting compliance requirements for Federal Information Security Management Act, PCI, Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act and other security requirements.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisecurity.org\/benchmark\/amazon_web_services\/\">Amazon Web Services CIS Benchmarks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisecurity.org\/benchmark\/azure\/\">Microsoft Azure CIS Benchmarks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisecurity.org\/benchmark\/google_cloud_computing_platform\/\">Google Cloud Platform CIS Benchmarks<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By certifying Cloud Optix with CIS, Sophos has demonstrated commitment to actively solve the foundational problem of ensuring secure configurations are used throughout AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Not all certifications are equal<\/h2>\n<p>CIS Benchmark Certification is awarded on two profile levels. The intent of the Level 1 profile is to lower the attack surface of your organization while keeping machines usable and not hindering business functionality. The Level 2 profile is considered &#8220;defense in depth&#8221; and is intended for environments where security is paramount.<\/p>\n<p>Organizations should investigate whether a vendor offers the level of certification required for their industry, or compliance standard. Sophos has provided evidence that Cloud Optix can accurately report security recommendations in both level 1 and level 2 CIS Benchmark profiles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Helping you sell<\/h2>\n<p>We help you make the business case for Cloud Optix and convince security leaders using measurable benefits. Use these assets to make the case for public cloud visibility and threat response.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Business Case for Cloud Optix whitepaper:<\/strong>Demonstrate ROI with our examples for small, medium, and large organizations<\/li>\n<li><strong>Free cloud security assessment<\/strong>: Provide your customers with a guided setup of Cloud Optix, a security and compliance review, and a presentation of assessment findings<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sophos Cloud Optix Sales Tools<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/partners.sophos.com\/prm\/English\/s\/assets?q=%22Security%20Assessment%22%20OR%20%22Licence%20Calculator%22%20OR%20%22Business%20Case%22%20OR%20%22Webcast%20Assets%22%20OR%20%22Cloud%20Optix%20-%20HTML%22%20OR%20%22Shutterfly%22\">Access the materials<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophos Cloud Optix has now been certified by CIS (Center for Internet Security) to accurately assess AWS, Azure, and GCP environments based on best practices for secure configuration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":1101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,34],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products","tag-cloud-optix","tag-third-party-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/featured-image-cloud-optix-cis-certification-1600x960-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}