Using Automation to Adopt STIG and CIS Control Baseline Hardening

The MindPoint Group developers behind Ansible Lockdown discusses the process of using automation to adopt STIG and CIS baseline hardening, with emphasis on the availability of Lockdown Enterprise support subscriptions to assist you with your baseline automation goals.

Baseline Controls at a Glance
Baseline Critical Security Controls are a prescriptive, prioritized, and simplified set of best practices that you can use to strengthen your cybersecurity posture. Today, thousands of cybersecurity practitioners from around the world use the baseline controls and contribute to their development via a community consensus process.

Lead developers George Nalen and Mark Bolwell are a part of this community and they discuss the necessity of automation in hardening to STIG and CIS Control baselines. Use Ansible Lockdown to setup your systems no matter how many controls there are to put in place when new updates for STIG and CIS are released and use automation to audit your environment for more detailed information. With automation you can also speed up implementation of your version of the controls, customized for your business and its threat tolerance.

MindPoint Group offers the Lockdown Enterprise annual subscription to get access to updated baselines ahead of the public release and with priority support.

Ansible Lockdown is the open-source project supported via Lockdown Enterprise and the cybersecurity experts at MindPoint Group. More information about Lockdown can be found at https://www.lockdownenterprise.com. Get started for free today with Ansible Lockdown! Be sure to join the Discord channel, from the website, for direct access to George and Mark, as well as the rest of the team behind Lockdown.

Lockdown Enterprise: https://www.lockdownenterprise.com
MindPoint Group: https://www.mindpointgroup.com
More about Baseline Modernization with Automation: https://www.mindpointgroup.com/cybers...

More about CIS Controls: https://www.cisecurity.org/controls
More about STIG Controls: https://public.cyber.mil/stigs/

Highlights:
2:17 Focus on STIG and CIS hardening with Lockdown
2:59 CIS and STIG guidelines in UK and US
4:28 Lockdown clients get access to the same playbooks MindPoint Group uses
5:05 Lockdown Enterprise can help you with initial configuration and automation configuration
6:25 Lockdown Enterprise clients receive priority support and early access to updates
10:15 Reach Lockdown devs with Discord and participate in the public community
11:48 Audit scans can help you find places you're out of compliance
16:12 Lockdown Enterprise priority support and early access details
17:20 Getting baselines as early as possible gives you lead time to test your new configurations
20:00 Public community receives vendor repos 90 days after the private community; private community receives them within 2 weeks
21:13 Get in touch with the team!