CIS Controls

Released / current context

Center for Internet Security Controls are community-developed, prioritized technical safeguards.

Mandatory or voluntary

Voluntary unless adopted by policy, contract, cyber-insurance, or customer assurance program.

Who should care

IT and security teams that need practical safeguard prioritization for identity, asset, vulnerability, configuration, monitoring, and incident readiness.

Control model

Safeguards grouped into implementation-oriented controls that can be mapped to ownership, proof, tickets, and maturity state.

What CIS Controls asks teams to prove

Center for Internet Security Controls becomes operational when obligations are turned into scoped controls, named owners, evidence requests, review decisions, residual risk, and management reporting. The guide page keeps that chain explicit so buyers can understand how the standard is handled inside PlanGRC.

Practical roadmap

1. Define scope

   Confirm business units, systems, data classes, regions, and services where CIS Controls applies.

2. Map controls

   Translate obligations into controls, owner assignments, due dates, testing approach, and evidence expectations.

3. Collect proof

   Request evidence from owners, preserve attachments or vault references, and keep reviewer decisions traceable.

4. Assess gaps

   Score readiness, identify missing evidence, evaluate residual risk, and create remediation tickets where needed.

5. Report and maintain

   Publish executive and audit-ready views, keep exceptions visible, and re-run periodic reviews after change.

Related workflows