For a number of years, the Cyber Security Summit has recognized those who are trail blazers in securing our country’s infrastructure. This year two individuals from the Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS) have been nominated for their work: Tony Sager, Senior Vice President and Chief Evangelist and Barbara Ware, Director of Communications. Both candidates have demonstrated amazing innovation in the field of cyber security. Eileen Manning, Summit Founder, felt recognition should also go to the entire agency for the body of work they have accomplished supporting both public and private sectors against cyber threats. “This agency has built tools, shaped best practices and provided critical timely threat alerts, generously contributing their time and voice to build our national defense.” Such support was endorsed by Brigadier General Stefanie Horvath, 2018 Visionary Leadership Award winner, and the 2019 nominating committee chaired by Chris Buse, Deputy Legislative Auditor, State of Minnesota, also winner of the 2016 Visionary Leadership Award. The Founders Award was created to recognize the work of this exceptional non-profit organization, a global group of dedicated IT security practitioners committed to providing technical expertise to all states.
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The Center for Internet Security (CIS) is internationally recognized as cybersecurity organization with a mission to identify, develop, validate, promote and sustain best practices for cyber defense and build and lead communities to enable an environment of trust in cyberspace. CIS is: non-profit entity with members from large corporations, government agencies, and academic institutions; a volunteer, global community of IT professionals who continuously refine and verify CIS best practices and cybersecurity tools. home to the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center™ (EI-ISAC®), which supports the U.S. State, Local and Territorial elections offices protection efforts of the electoral process.
CIS is a non-profit entity with members from large corporations, government agencies, and academic institutions. CIS communities are a volunteer, global community of IT professionals who continuously refine and verify CIS best practices and cybersecurity tools. To develop and structure its benchmarks, CIS teams collect suggestions, advice, official work and recommendations from participating organizations. The teams analyze their data and information to determine the most vital configuration settings to improve internet system security. Building upon the foundational security controls, CIS members have created secure computer images, automated configuration assessment tools and information services to quickly inform organizations and provide immediate remediation support.
CIS is also home to both the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (MS-ISAC®), the vital resource for U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial government entities to receive cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery services, and the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center™ (EI-ISAC®), which supports the U.S. State, Local and Territorial elections offices protection efforts of the electoral process. Both ISACs provide invaluable information services to State, Local, Tribal and Territorial government entities through advisories and Malware reporting.