Discover how the right tool helps save time, prevents errors, offers transparency, and measures compliance Credit: SerGRAY No matter an organization’s size or complexity, cybersecurity is a team sport. Departments and individuals across the board have a stake in ensuring that assets and data remain secure. Just like a successful sports team, collaboration among the players is essential.Likewise, the person in charge of a cybersecurity program needs to be able to manage and monitor activities to achieve success. From assigning specific roles to initiating assessments, the right management tools can mean the difference between a winning season or a trip to the showers.Using Trusted Resources to Gain Team SupportUsing trusted guidelines such as the CIS Controls and CIS Benchmarks can help obtain buy-in from stakeholders and staff for any cybersecurity program. The Controls and Benchmarks are consensus-developed, prioritized best practices and security guidelines used by organizations around the world to defend against cyber threats.Using trusted sources can help get your team on board with assessing the current state of your organization’s cybersecurity, how you stack up with other frameworks you may need to comply with, and how to monitor it all over time.Upgrade for Effective CollaborationA cybersecurity program has many moving parts. The right project management tool helps save time, prevents errors and redundancy, offers transparency between team members, and effectively measures compliance.Say goodbye to spreadsheetsIn the past, cybersecurity managers typically had to rely on spreadsheets to keep track of all the activities, assignments, timelines, and resources their team was working on. It seemed like the most effective way to keep everything in one place. However, with the increased complexity of creating and managing a cybersecurity program, spreadsheets may no longer be the most effective way to track progress. With the lack of any automation and continuous manual maintenance, something is sure to fall through the cracks.Using a tool that offers more than a spreadsheet can be a game changer. For example, a company using the CIS Controls can manage their organization’s self-assessment (at no cost) using the CIS Controls Self-Assessment Tool (CIS CSAT). The CIS-hosted version of CIS CSAT is a web application that:Facilitates collaboration among team members as they track the organization’s implementation of the CIS ControlsAllows supporting files to be uploaded including evidence and policy filesTracks progress over time and identifies areas for improvementMaps to other cybersecurity frameworks and helps demonstrate compliance to auditorsCompares your results to the average of your industryAll these would be difficult to manage and demonstrate effectively with the use of just a single shared document.Collaborate like a ProOnce an organization sees the benefits of utilizing software for their cybersecurity assessments, the next step is to customize the way you perform assessments. Using the greater flexibility available in CIS CSAT Pro, you can optimize the assessment process to match your organization’s specific needs and preferences. CIS CSAT Pro, the on-premises version (now on v1.5.0), provides all of the benefits of the CIS-hosted version with these additional features and benefits:Create multiple organization trees to track organizations/sub-organizations and their assessmentsTailor user roles to your needs by assigning users to different roles for different organizations/sub-organizations and separating administrative roles from non-administrative rolesTrack multiple concurrent assessments in the same organizationEasily access your tasks, assessments, and organizations from a consolidated home pageSave time by using a simplified scoring method with a reduced number of questionsDecide whether to opt in to share data and see how scores compare to industry averageWhether you are using the CIS-hosted version or the on-premises version (which are both being updated for the CIS Controls v8 release coming Spring 2021), CIS CSAT makes the powerful security guidance of the CIS Controls easier for teams to implement, track, and document progress.Upgrade to CIS CSAT ProRegardless of your organization’s size or resources, CIS CSAT Pro can help you manage your cybersecurity program for the win! CIS CSAT Pro is available only through Membership in CIS SecureSuite, the most comprehensive and cost-effective cybersecurity solution available to organizations today. Sign up for a new CIS SecureSuite Membership by April 30 and save up to 20%.The much-anticipated Version 8 of the CIS Controls will be released in May 2021. CIS CSAT Pro will be updated accordingly to work with both versions 7 and 8. You won’t want to wait, however; get started now with a CIS SecureSuite Membership so you’ll be ready for CIS Controls v8, and prepared for the cybersecurity challenges yet to come!Learn more about CIS SecureSuite Membership Related content brandpost Sponsored by CIS Mapping Your Way To Compliance With Cybersecurity Frameworks Make cybersecurity program work more efficiently by "mapping" frameworks to security resources By CIS Apr 23, 2021 3 mins Security brandpost Sponsored by CIS Remediate Insecure Configurations to Improve Cybersecurity With CIS, translate cyber threat information into action while saving time By CIS Apr 14, 2021 5 mins Security brandpost Sponsored by CIS How Configuration Assessments Help Improve Cyber Defenses Assessing Regularly is the Key to Reducing Risk from Poorly Configured Systems By CIS Apr 06, 2021 4 mins Security brandpost Sponsored by CIS Getting a Grip on Basic Cyber Hygiene with the CIS Controls Guidelines will help distinguish the ‘should’ from the ‘must-do’ precautions By Autum Pylant, CIS Senior Product Communications Specialist Apr 06, 2021 5 mins Security PODCASTS VIDEOS RESOURCES EVENTS SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. 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