Eliminate manual security audits and enforce compliance with the Center for Internet Security Benchmarks (CIS) through Puppet Enterprise Advanced.
- Automatically scan and report on CIS Benchmark compliance.
- Enforce CIS standards hardening policies at scale.
- Customize and apply CIS controls for security across complex infrastructures.
- Maintain consistent CIS security standards across distributed IT environments.
- Scale CIS automation seamlessly across servers, cloud, and edge devices under a single platform.
- Simplify ongoing compliance with an integrated CIS compliance check tool.
Achieve and Maintain CIS Security Standards
Meeting CIS security standards shouldn’t require manual scripts, spreadsheets, or last-minute audit prep.
Puppet Enterprise Advanced allows CIS Benchmark automation to configure, monitor compliance posture, and proactively remediate drift — helping you stay aligned as CIS framework evolves while strengthening your overall security posture.
Fill out the form to connect with our team and discover how Puppet Enterprise Advanced simplifies CIS automation, presets CIS Critical Security Controls, and streamlines CIS Benchmark compliance.
Compliance Matters: How Puppet + CIS Benchmarks Keep You Secure
CIS Benchmarks are widely recognized as the gold standard for secure system configuration. Developed and peer-reviewed by cybersecurity professionals and published by the Center for Internet Security (CIS), they provide a trusted baseline for infrastructure hardening across industries and support stronger infrastructure governance and compliance practices.
But passing an audit and implementing new security standards is hard. Any organization can use a CIS scanning tool to manually improve system security. But a security-aware infrastructure automation platform like Puppet transforms CIS guidance into policy-as-code — enabling automated enforcement, audit readiness, and security at scale.
Here’s How Puppet + CIS Framework Help Simplify Compliance and Strengthen System Security
Puppet translates CIS Benchmarks into reusable policy-as-code to immediately improve infrastructure security and drive security left in the development cycle.
Powerful audit capabilities provide continuous reporting on adherence to CIS standards. The powerful CIS-CAT Pro® assessor is integrated into our Puppet Enterprise platform, giving teams a built-in CIS scanning tool with enterprise-grade reporting.
As threats change, CIS security standards evolve to meet them. But why manipulate configurations manually to implement the latest benchmarks? Puppet Core and Puppet Enterprise Advanced take care of that automatically with pre-built, vendor-supported hardening for CIS controls and DISA-STIG enforcement modules — delivering continuous security hardening and CIS automation for security controls without added operational burden.
CIS Vulnerability Management for Hybrid Infrastructures
Whether your infrastructure runs in the cloud, on-premises, or across distributed environments, Puppet provides centralized visibility and control for stronger CIS Benchmark compliance management.
The Security Compliance Enforcement console within Puppet Enterprise delivers:
- Real-time CIS compliance status across environments.
- Automated drift detection and remediation.
- Centralized CIS automation reporting for audit preparation.
- Improved confidence in your CIS Benchmark compliance posture.
- Ongoing validation against CIS controls for critical security.
Puppet Solutions for CIS Benchmark Automation
Choose the solution that best fits your CIS compliance and configuration needs.
Puppet Core
Stable, secure, vendor-supported builds for Open Source Puppet users.
- Vendor-backed SLAs.
- Stable, secure software builds and hardened binaries.
- Training engagement with Certified Puppet Engineers*.
- Always-on policy enforcement to align with CIS Benchmarks and DISA STIG*.
- Add agentless orchestration and Ansible reuse with Puppet Edge for broader automation coverage.
- Streamline enforcement of foundational CIS controls across distributed environments.
*Exclusive to the commercial license
Puppet Enterprise
Enterprise-ready DevOps solutions for automating infrastructure at scale.
- Automate infrastructure management across large server environments.
- Easier-to-use web-based GUI.
- Control access for specific users with RBAC.
- Accelerate software deployments and streamline IT operations.
- Manage consistent infrastructure across on-premises, cloud, and distributed environments.
- Audit systems against CIS guidance as part of Security Configuration Management (SCM).
- Extend with Puppet Edge to unify agent-based and agentless automation at scale.
- Support enterprise-wide CIS Critical Security Controls enforcement and reporting.
Puppet Enterprise Advanced
Platform for security-conscious enterprises with complex infrastructure and compliance needs.
- Predict, control, and respond to changes in your infrastructure.
- Expedite decision-making with data exports and automated reporting.
- Manage infrastructure beyond human scale with AI features powered by Puppet Perforce Intelligence.
- Ensure greater uptime with CIS vulnerability manage and security baseline enforcement.
- Empower large teams to securely automate and configure infrastructure.
- Resolve issues faster with shorter ticket turnaround and priority support.
- Always-on policy enforcement to align with CIS Benchmarks and DISA STIGs.
- Gain advanced audit visibility and compliance reporting for CIS Benchmarks through Security Configuration Management (SCM).
- Pair with Puppet Edge for enterprise-scale governance, drift detection, and remediation beyond servers.
- Gain continuous visibility with enterprise-grade
See Our Solution in Action
Puppet helps keep your systems aligned with CIS Benchmarks, DISA STIGs, and even your own custom policies using a reliable agent-based approach that continues to work even when servers are down.
Whether you need a scalable CIS scanning tool, end-to-end CIS Benchmark automation, or full CIS Linux hardening support, Puppet delivers.
Get more information by filling out the form to speak with our team and learn how you can automate CIS compliance across your infrastructure while maintaining alignment with CIS Critical Security Controls.