How many CIS benchmarks exist?
The Center for Internet Security publishes over 100 CIS benchmarks covering operating systems (Windows, Linux distros, macOS), cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI), container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB), web servers, browsers, mobile devices, and applications. New benchmarks are added regularly; existing benchmarks update with major-version releases of underlying technology.
The longer answer.
Each benchmark targets one technology and version, such as Windows Server 2022 or Ubuntu 24.04, and is revised as that technology changes. Most define two profile levels, and many mix automated and manual recommendations.
CISGuard supports 22 of them, chosen to cover a typical enterprise estate: Windows 11 and Intune-managed Windows 11, Windows Server 2022, Ubuntu 24.04, RHEL 9, Azure Linux 2 and 3 on AKS, Azure (Foundations and Compute), AWS, Microsoft 365, Kubernetes, Docker, AKS, EKS, OpenShift, four browsers, SQL Server 2022 and IIS 10.
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