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Glossary: Policies, Standards and Risk Management

CIS Benchmarks

Also written: CIS Benchmark

The best-known benchmarks: consensus-based lists of recommended security settings for specific products, grouped into Level 1 and Level 2 profiles. Alex used the Level 1 profile to build the order server's baseline.

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