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STIG & CIS Automation Love: Let Us Count the Ways

February 13, 2023

Fall in love with automated compliance

With Valentine’s Day and the AFCEA West show upon us, we know what you are thinking—STIG Love.

It’s OK. You can admit it. Nothing loves back like cybersecurity compliance. Well, unless you’re talking about the kind of loving SteelCloud’s ConfigOS gives to STIGs and CIS Benchmarks: automating scanning and remediation, providing continual compliance and showing complete devotion to a secure baseline.

We are pretty hardened cybersecurity experts and sometimes ConfigOS even makes us blush. So we thought we’d list the ways it makes life more beautiful. And offer, as our gift to you, the STIG equivalent of a dozen red roses and some chocolates, a free download of our Free STIGs for Dummies guide.

Without further ado, let us count the ways we love compliance automation.

1. We love thee for thy faster implementation.

Reduce days and weeks of manual scanning and remediation to just one hour. The more systems you manage, the more time (and hassle) you save.

2. For the way you provide immediate compliance feedback.

Instead of waiting hours/days/weeks for feedback on on the success of your implementation, STIG automation makes compliance feedback virtually immediate.

3. We cherish how effortless you make compliance scanning.

Compliance scanning isn’t particularly difficult, but it does require effort. ConfigOS scans, remediates, and reports as a single step with all the waivers already built in.

4. We adore that minimal training is required.

Traditional STIG compliance work usually requires an experienced (and expensive) mid- to senior-level administrator. With automation, however, a junior-level administrators can scan, remediate, and report on STIG compliance after a single, short training session.

5. We are enamored with the ease at which you create new baselines.

Manually creating secure baselines for IT systems is a tedious, time-consuming task. But automation can harden every CAT I, CAT II, and CAT III STIG control in 60 minutes, versus weeks or months.

6. And we’re smitten with how you maintain secure baselines.

Configuration drift from patches, updates, administrative changes, and new software installations constantly causes issues. Quarterly STIGs applied via automated processes only require approximately 15 minutes to bring the baseline up to date, however.

7. Your centralized management makes us feel seen.

Manual STIG implementation has no centralized management interface. However, automation provides the administrator with a “single pane of glass,” or a single interface from which to manage all systems.

8. It fills us with an increased agility heretofore unknown to us.

Agility is a measure of how quickly an organization can respond to changes, threats, or opportunities. An automated solution can scan and remediate from 3,000 to 5,000 systems per hour. Those 100 systems can be fully scanned and remediated within minutes.

9. And you do it with reduced service delivery costs.

Touching every system in a network to perform hardening tasks and apply controls raises delivery costs by dedicating one or more senior system administrators to the job. By reducing individual “touch” on every system in a network, automation’s service delivery costs and timeline are significantly reduced.

10. Not to mention better quality and consistency.

Automation delivers consistency by mitigating human error. The automation tools apply controls the same way, every time, to each system. Automation delivers continuous, drift-free compliance!

Count your own ways with compliance automation from SteelCloud’s ConfigOS.

With all this talk of love, you may be in the mood for more STIG Love from ConfigOS. Download STIGs for Dummies now and schedule a talk with our team.

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