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CIS Controls v8

Classification: CONFIDENTIAL — Internal Use Only

CIS Controls v8 implementation is at 100% across all four WDC servers. The table below maps each applicable control to its implementation on the relevant server pair.


Implementation Matrix

CIS Control Control Name SKY/RAIN SUN/WIND
CIS 1.1 Asset Inventory DHCP lease tracking; DNS A/PTR for all hosts Kibana dhcp-leases-* index; Prometheus asset labels
CIS 1.2 Software Inventory Minimal RPM install; dnf history Minimal RPM install; dnf history
CIS 2.2 Authorized Software Server base only; no GUI Server base only; ELK + Prometheus packages only
CIS 3.11 Data Encryption DNSSEC zone signing; Webmin TLS Webmin TLS; management network restriction
CIS 3.14 Sensitive Data DNSSEC private keys chmod 600; encrypted backups Elasticsearch data on dedicated partition
CIS 4.1 Secure Configuration CIS Benchmark Rocky Linux 8; named/dhcpd hardening CIS Benchmark Rocky Linux 8; service hardening
CIS 4.4 Firewall firewalld drop zone; DNS/DHCP rules only firewalld drop zone; management-only rules
CIS 5.1 Account Inventory dnsadmin only; service accounts nologin monitadmin only; service accounts nologin
CIS 5.2 Privileged Access sudo with logging; SSH no root sudo with logging; SSH no root
CIS 5.4 Password Policy 14-char min, 90-day max, 5-attempt lockout Same policy
CIS 6.1 Access Control SELinux enforcing; BIND chroot SELinux enforcing; service isolation
CIS 7.1 Vulnerability Management dnf-automatic security updates dnf-automatic security updates
CIS 8.2 Audit Log Management auditd with DNS/DHCP rules; rsyslog → WIND auditd; Elasticsearch 90-day retention
CIS 8.3 Log Storage Dedicated /var/log on sdb Dedicated /var/log and /var/lib/elasticsearch on sdb
CIS 8.5 Log Analysis Kibana dashboards on WIND Kibana dashboards; Grafana panels
CIS 8.9 Centralized Logging rsyslog → WIND:5140 Logstash pipeline; Elasticsearch indexing
CIS 10.1 Malware Defenses AIDE daily integrity check AIDE daily integrity check
CIS 11.1 Data Recovery Daily cron backup; ESXi snapshots Daily cron backup; ESXi snapshots
CIS 11.2 Automated Backup /etc/cron.daily/dns-dhcp-backup /etc/cron.daily/mon-backup + log-backup
CIS 12.1 Network Defense firewalld drop default; explicit rich rules firewalld drop default; explicit rich rules
CIS 12.4 Network Topology Dual NIC (prod/mgmt); DNS zone segregation Dual NIC (prod/mgmt)
CIS 13.1 Network Monitoring node_exporter + bind_exporter Prometheus scrape; Grafana dashboards
CIS 13.4 Alert Management Grafana alert rules (P1–P4) Grafana alert rules; Kibana alerts
CIS 16.7 Application Security Webmin TLS; management-only access Webmin TLS; Grafana auth; Kibana on mgmt network
CIS 17.1 IR Designation DNS Admin + Security Ops Monitoring Admin + Security Ops
CIS 17.7 IR Exercises Quarterly failover + DR drills Quarterly snapshot + pipeline tests
CIS 17.9 IR Thresholds P1–P4 severity matrix; RTO/RPO defined P1–P4 severity matrix; RTO/RPO defined

GCP Controls Mapping

CIS Control GCP Implementation
CIS 3.11 Cloud VPN AES-256-GCM; GCS encryption at rest; HTTPS on Cloud Run
CIS 4.4 VPC firewall deny-all-ingress default; explicit rules for VPN + internal
CIS 8.3 VPC Flow Logs; Cloud Audit Logs
CIS 11.1 GCS backup bucket with 90-day retention and versioning
CIS 12.4 Separate VPC (172.16.0.0/24); only VPN traffic from on-prem permitted

Compliance Testing Schedule

Test Frequency Owner
CIS compliance check (all servers) Monthly Security Ops
AIDE integrity check Daily (automated) All servers
Backup archive verification Weekly Backup Admin
Full DR drill Annually IT Manager + Full Team

Cis Controls · v1.1 · 2026-03-14 · GPUS-IT · Classification: CONFIDENTIAL — Internal Use Only