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CIS Hardened Image STIG on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Center for Internet Security | 2.0.0.7Linux/Unix, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Excellent implementation of Linux with great support
What do you like best about the product?
Easy installation and easy to maintain. The support has been excellent so far.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much wrong with it. I haven't discovered anything that has been a major inconvenience. We have upgraded RHEL several times and each time it gets better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provides a stable solid platform to support our intranet applications. Security is easy to lock down and updates are easy to implement.
Secure and safe software for the servers
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to deploy and integrate with the existing IT system. Happy with the 24x7 support system and most of the problems we encountered during the integration were resolved immediately.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing is on the higher end. The subscription costs can be lowered for annual packages of the end-to-end security offering. Faced some issues while familiarizing myself with the workflow, but the same was resolved by the IT team quickly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use this software for most of the cybersecurity-related issues in my IT infrastructure. This has helped me reduce my other IT-related costs, which were encountered earlier.
Useful online documentation, straightforward implementation, and secure
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
One of the fundamental reasons Red Hat 7 has benefited our organization is that it is fully certified. It has certifications on the DISA STG and other cybersecurity frameworks like Zero Trust. This is what the Department of Defense mandates to be used and it is feasible to receive these specifications and automate the implementation for continuous improvement. By implementing the technical guides, we can receive immediate results and protect environments according to our expectations. There are a group of technical procedures that are shared and that you can implement, if you follow the industry best practices.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features are the specification and technical guides, they are most important for cyber security assurance
What needs improvement?
The accessibility to the resources could be more widespread. The registration of the license information is complicated and this product registration process should be easier for customers to access.
In an upcoming release, they could improve by having more focused security.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Red Hat Enterprise Linux for more than 15 years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is highly stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is perfectly scalable. You have some resource limits depending on how you're using the technologies. According to those usage patterns, the system is going to be able to give more or less. However, this depends more on the user side than on the system side.
We have approximately 10,000 enterprise users using the systems. They sporadically log into the applications and make use of the database systems and extract information.
How are customer service and support?
There is a division between the paid support and the support that is included by the website of Red Hat. I have only used the website support and there is a lot of documentation available.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward for our use case. As long as you understand what you're doing, the technologies that are involved, the proper way to style, secure, and prepare them, everything will be fine.
After you have the guide, the printed procedure, the deployment is straightforward. The operating system can be deployed in less than an hour.
Okay, and how long did the deployment take?
What about the implementation team?
The solution requires maintenance, and it is a shared responsibility. They take different maintenance actions or tasks, and sometimes it's the operating system, database system, or application front band that needs maintenance.
What other advice do I have?
The number one advice would be to keep the division between testing and production.
There's one system that you need to set up for testing purposes only, and this testing system can be obtained free of license. There's an evaluation license that can be easily applied. When developing the application on the Red Hat 7 system, stay using the evaluation version until the requirements are fully met, only then should you migrate them to a paid supported version.
The biggest lesson that you learn by using this solution is, you easily reach a point where a single person or a single team can no longer respond to the complexities and challenges of the security or the different versions of the applications. At that moment you need to rely on a serious fused team, that team that is backing the effort.
I rate Red Hat Enterprise Linux an eight out of ten.
Best Platform for Internet Security
What do you like best about the product?
CIS helps develop and maintain the Controls within the organization, easy to access.
Benchmark Information PDF is so easy to understand so that everyone without deep knowledge also, can start coding.
Best choice for the deployment of a broad range of applications.
Reliable and secure.
Benchmark Information PDF is so easy to understand so that everyone without deep knowledge also, can start coding.
Best choice for the deployment of a broad range of applications.
Reliable and secure.
What do you dislike about the product?
I did not come across any cons about CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux except the price is a little bit higher, because of which it becomes unaffordable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am using For CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Automation and Data storage purposes.
I found it very useful at my workplace and made my day-to-day tasks easier.
I found it very useful at my workplace and made my day-to-day tasks easier.
Security and comply with a lot of standard requirements
What do you like best about the product?
Provide and recommend a lot of built-in configured and make OS is better.
What do you dislike about the product?
Woriking with different OS needs some tweaks and adjust to do smoothly
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Hardening Linux to be comply with many standard requirements; benefit of CIS Red hat Enterprise is large of community and discussion to be better via CIS foru and template is always good to reference
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