Case Study: The Center for Internet Security achieves improved security posture and simplified compliance reporting with Critical Start

CRITICALSTART ® CIS Critical Security Controls v8 Risk Assessment

The Center for Internet Security needed a practical, auditable way to assess and improve organizations’ security posture against the CIS Critical Security Controls v8, meet federal and state compliance requirements, and produce evidence for audits—especially for SMBs, state and local agencies, healthcare, education, and financial institutions. To address this, The Center for Internet Security leveraged Critical Start’s CIS Critical Security Controls v8 Risk Assessment and Critical Start’s Cyber Risk Dashboard.

Critical Start implemented the assessment via its Cyber Risk Dashboard to catalog deployed safeguards, map them to the 18 CIS control categories, pinpoint gaps, and provide risk‑ranked remediation recommendations and compliance evidence. Critical Start’s solution streamlined audit reporting and multi‑framework benchmarking, enabled prioritized, pragmatic improvements to reduce cyber risk, and offered a cost‑effective, auditable roadmap to compliance.

The Center for Internet Security