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Cloud Hardened Image (CHI) benchmarks

 CHI:  Cloud Hardened Image

Siteage, LLC is a vender of cloud hardened images (CHI) with the standard of National Checklist Program (NCP) U.S. government. Siteage Hardened images provides low level design (LLD) on setting the security configuration of operating systems and applications in the AWS Cloud, our aim to provide highly secure elastic cloud computing environment with built-in security stands of National Checklist Program (NCP) U.S.

Cloud Image vs. Cloud Hardened Images (CHI)

Cloud Image / AWS AMI or snapshot of a virtual machine that used to create elastic cloud environment like AWS EC2 or simple iso that deploy on the dedicated server. Simple Cloud images provide your Linux – Unix or Windows deployed on cloud without following standard security practices, included all the packages with default-version without concern of vulnerable packages and cyberattacks.

CHI (Cloud Hardened Image)

Siteage Cloud Hardened Image developed using the Low-level design and according to the standard of National Checklist Program (NCP) U.S. government. Siteage build highly secure hardened cloud Images minimize the changes of package vulnerabilities, protection against cyber-attacks and its easy to achieve compliance certificates.  

 National Checklist Program Repository

“The National Checklist Program (NCP), defined by the NIST SP 800-70, is the U.S. government repository of publicly available security checklists (or benchmarks) that provide detailed low level guidance on setting the security configuration of operating systems and applications.

NCP provides metadata and links to checklists of various formats including checklists that conform to the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP). SCAP enables validated security products to automatically perform configuration checking using NCP checklists. For more information relating to the NCP please visit the information page or the glossary of terms.”

CHI SL1:  Support Level 1

Siteage, LLC DevOps support team available over email [support at siteage dot net]. for queries about CHI – SL1

Email. support@siteage.net

Web: www.siteage.net

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