Announcing the CIS Benchmark APIs

Posted on August 14, 2023

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Overview

CIS Benchmarks for Carbon Black Workload will help enterprises measure and report compliance of organizational workload assets against industry standard benchmarks published by CIS, the Center for Internet Security.

The APIs enable configuration and retrieval of Benchmark Sets and Rules in Carbon Black Cloud, and retrieval of the results from scans performed using these Rules. Use these to integrate results into your ecosystem and track the investigation of non-compliant assets.

For more information on this feature see the Carbon Black Cloud User Guide.

Use Cases

Through these APIs you can

• Curate benchmarks
• Query compliance results
• Export compliance results

Requirements

• Carbon Black Cloud Workload - You must have purchased one of the Carbon Black Cloud Workload packages.
• All API calls require an API key with appropriate permissions, see Authentication for details

APIs

• CIS Benchmark APIs

More Information

• CIS Benchmarks in the Carbon Black Cloud User Guide
• CBC Postman Collection
• CIS Benchmarks on Tech Zone
• Carbon Black Cloud Python SDK - CIS Benchmarks coming soon
• Center for Internet Security.

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