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The Center for Internet Security® (CIS®) makes the connected world a safer place for people, businesses, and governments through our core competencies of collaboration and innovation. CIS is a community-driven nonprofit, responsible for the CIS Critical Security Controls® and CIS Benchmarks™, globally recognized best practices for securing IT systems and data. CIS leads a global community of IT professionals to continuously evolve these standards and provide products and services to proactively safeguard against emerging threats.

CIS Hardened Images® provide secure, on-demand, scalable computing environments in the cloud. CIS is home to the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (MS-ISAC®), the trusted resource for cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery for U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial government entities, and the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (EI-ISAC®), which supports the rapidly changing cybersecurity needs of U.S. election offices.



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