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New CIS Benchmark Projects
From: Rodney Petersen <rpetersen () EDUCAUSE EDU>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:40:18 -0700
As many of you know, EDUCAUSE Institutional Members receive a 50 percent discount on the fee they pay to become members of the Center for Internet Security (CIS). For more information, see: http://www.educause.edu/TheCenterforInternetSecurityMembershipDiscount/2 634
From time to time, we also partner with CIS on the development of new
benchmarks. Below is an announcement regarding some new CIS activities that I wanted to pass along. Please consider participating. Thanks, -Rodney -------------------------------------------------- Rodney J. Petersen EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Security Task Force The Center for Internet Security(CIS) is beginning work on several new benchmarks and would like to invite the members of the higher edducation community to participate in our consensus process. For those of you new to CIS, we are a not-for-profit, end-user group that develops security guides, which we call benchmarks, by bringing together teams of experts who discuss security recommendations made in a draft. These teams work via teleconference and email lists to reach consensus on the best security recommendations for a particular platform. This process has proven very effective at creating detailed and useful benchmarks, while providing excellent opportunities for all involved to interact with their peers. You can see a list of currently available benchmarks and learn more about CIS from our web site at http://www.cisecurity.org. The following benchmarks are currently under development: Juniper Routers Check Point Firewall MySQL Database SQL Server 2005 Database If you or any of your colleagues are interested in participating or have any questions, please contact John Banghart at 703-716-0199 or jbanghart () cisecurity org. The time commitment is a only a couple hours a month. Thank you. -- John Banghart, CISSP Director of Benchmark Services The Center for Internet Security jbanghart () cisecurity org, (703) 716-0199
Current thread:
- New CIS Benchmark Projects Rodney Petersen (Nov 28)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: New CIS Benchmark Projects Brian Epstein (Nov 28)
- Re: New CIS Benchmark Projects Graham Toal (Nov 28)
- Re: New CIS Benchmark Projects Bob Kehr (Nov 28)