CIS-Aligned Cybersecurity Assessment Framework
Explore all 18 CIS-aligned cybersecurity control areas designed to help organizations identify security gaps, improve compliance readiness, strengthen governance, and build executive-ready remediation roadmaps.
What This Framework Helps You Identify
Governance Gaps
Unclear ownership, weak policies, missing review processes, and poor executive visibility.
Compliance Exposure
Scattered evidence, audit readiness problems, weak documentation, and cyber insurance risk.
Operational Risk
Unmanaged assets, weak access controls, limited monitoring, and slow incident response.
Explore the 18 CIS Control Assessment Pages
Each page focuses on a specific CIS-aligned control area with risk context, business consequences, assessment outcomes, common gaps, FAQs, and a readiness review CTA.
Governance and Operating Model
Define ownership, policies, oversight, and governance maturity.
Control 02Risk, Compliance, and Legal Obligations
Connect legal obligations, compliance evidence, and executive risk visibility.
Control 03Usage Policy, Intake, and Human Oversight
Control AI usage, request intake, human review, and acceptable use policies.
Control 04Workforce Enablement and AI Literacy
Improve employee readiness, AI literacy, role-based security awareness, and safe adoption.
Control 05Identity, Access, and Secrets
Review IAM, privileged access, secrets, authentication, and access governance.
Control 06Data Governance and Privacy
Assess sensitive data handling, privacy exposure, retention, and classification gaps.
Control 07Model Lifecycle and LLMOps
Review lifecycle controls, AI model governance, deployment discipline, and LLM operations.
Control 08Prompt and System Instruction Management
Control prompts, system instructions, guardrails, and AI behavior governance.
Control 09Knowledge Bases, Retrieval, and Vector Stores
Secure retrieval systems, vector stores, knowledge bases, and AI data access.
Control 10AI Security Engineering and Prompt Injection Defense
Defend AI systems from prompt injection, misuse, unsafe outputs, and abuse paths.
Control 11Agentic Orchestration and Tool Control
Govern AI agents, tools, permissions, workflows, and autonomous execution risks.
Control 12Automation and Enterprise Integrations
Review integrations, workflow automation, API access, and enterprise system exposure.
Control 13Vendor, Open-Source, and Supply Chain Risk
Assess third-party tools, open-source dependencies, vendors, and supply chain exposure.
Control 14Infrastructure and Compute Readiness
Evaluate infrastructure readiness, compute environments, hosting, and operational controls.
Control 15Observability, Logging, and Continuous Monitoring
Improve monitoring, logging, visibility, SIEM readiness, and continuous detection.
Control 16Change Management, Evaluation, and Release
Review change approvals, release governance, evaluation evidence, and deployment risk.
Control 17ROI, FinOps, and Performance Management
Align AI and security investments with cost control, value tracking, and performance outcomes.
Control 18Incident Response, Recovery, and Resilience
Strengthen incident readiness, recovery planning, resilience, and executive response workflows.
What You Receive From a CIS Readiness Review
Control Maturity Review
Assess the current state of each control area and identify practical gaps across people, process, technology, and evidence.
Executive Risk Summary
Translate technical control gaps into business impact, compliance exposure, cyber insurance risk, and leadership priorities.
Remediation Roadmap
Prioritize improvements based on risk, urgency, operational impact, and implementation feasibility.
AI Governance Recommendations
Identify where AI usage, automation, data exposure, and agentic workflows require stronger oversight and policy controls.
Build a CIS-Aligned Cybersecurity Roadmap
Identify governance gaps, reduce compliance exposure, improve security maturity, and create an executive-ready plan for strengthening cybersecurity and AI risk controls.