Framework library
Framework module · cis-controls-v8-1

CIS Critical Security Controls

A prioritized, prescriptive set of defensive actions organized into three implementation groups — the practical starting list when a team has no framework yet.

v8.1 · Center for Internet Security

Standing today
Catalog only

01Standing

Catalog only

A directory entry — authority, version ledger, verification — not a workspace you can open.

CIS Critical Security Controls is tracked in the registry — authority, version ledger, verification — and nothing is modelled for it yet. Import its catalog to begin.

Named and tracked only; safeguards not ingested as a control catalog.

02Registry record

checked 2026-08-06
Registry status
Planned · namedWe name the regime and track its authority. Nothing is modelled yet.
Control units
153Safeguards in CIS Controls v8.1 across 18 Controls, as published by CIS.
Control families
Implementation Group 1 · Implementation Group 2 · Implementation Group 3
Applies to
all sectors · global
Verification
Secondary — corroborated across independent sources; the authority blocks automated fetch or does not state it plainly. checked 2026-08-06

03Version ledger

2 editions
v8Supersededdate not published
v8.1Current edition · supersedes v8date not published
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