CIS is a community-driven nonprofit, responsible for the CIS Controls^® and CIS Benchmarks^™, globally recognized best practices for securing IT systems and data. CIS leads a global community of IT professionals to continuously evolve these standards and provide products and services to proactively safeguard against emerging threats. CIS Hardened Images® provide secure, on-demand, scalable computing environments in the cloud.

CIS is home to the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center^® (MS-ISAC^®), the trusted resource for cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery for U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial government entities, and the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center^® (EI-ISAC^®), which supports the rapidly changing cybersecurity needs of U.S. elections offices.