CIS is an independent, nonprofit organization with a mission to create confidence in the connected world. CIS Benchmarks are best practices for the secure configuration of a target system.
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is a United States Department of Defense combat support agency composed of military, federal civilians, and contractors. Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) is a configuration standard consisting of cybersecurity requirements for a specific product.
The Security Compliance Toolkit (SCT) is a set of tools that allows enterprise security administrators to download, analyze, test, edit, and store Microsoft-recommended security configuration baselines for Windows and other Microsoft products.