Firewall review for CIS Controls
The CIS Controls put secure configuration and network defense among the highest priorities. FirewallScan audits your FortiGate against best practice and supports the relevant safeguards.
What the CIS Controls expect from your firewall
The CIS Critical Security Controls are a prioritized set of safeguards proven to reduce risk. Several controls bear directly on firewalls: secure configuration of network devices, network infrastructure management, and network monitoring and defense.
The CIS approach favors implementing foundational safeguards well — and few are more foundational than ensuring your firewall is securely configured, segmented and regularly reviewed against a known baseline.
- Secure configuration of network devices (Control 4)
- Network infrastructure management (Control 12)
- Boundary defense and least-privilege access
Where firewall review maps to CIS
Firewall review supports multiple CIS Controls that organizations commonly adopt as their security baseline.
Control 4
Secure configuration of enterprise assets and software — including maintaining firewalls against a secure baseline.
Control 12
Network infrastructure management expects network devices to be securely configured and reviewed.
Control 13
Network monitoring and defense relies on correct segmentation and boundary controls.
How FirewallScan helps
Operationalize the network-focused CIS Controls
FirewallScan audits your FortiGate configuration against a secure-configuration baseline, surfacing deviations relevant to CIS Controls 4, 12 and 13. Findings are prioritized so you implement the highest-impact safeguards first.
Documented, repeatable reviews give you ongoing evidence that network devices are securely configured and maintained — the operational reality behind the CIS safeguards.
- Audit against a secure-configuration baseline
- Findings mapped to network-focused CIS safeguards
- Repeatable, documented reviews as ongoing evidence
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