CIS-CAT Pro Assessor
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Test Kitchen
7.2#4 in infrastructure testing toolsFree planFree planAPILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted
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| Fact | CIS-CAT Pro Assessor | Test Kitchen |
|---|---|---|
| Company headquarters | CIS lists its headquarters in East Greenbush, New York. | LinkedIn identifies Burlington, Massachusetts as Progress Software headquarters. |
| Company size | LinkedIn lists CIS in the 501–1,000 employee range. | LinkedIn lists Progress Software as a public software-development company with 1,001–5,000 employees and 4,302 discoverable employees. |
| Purpose | CIS-CAT Pro Assessor scans systems and reports their compliance with CIS Benchmarks. | Test Kitchen is a test harness for executing infrastructure code on one or more platforms in isolation. |
CIS-CAT Pro Assessor plans
- CIS-CAT LiteFree
- CIS SecureSuite End User (up to 99 employees)$2,400 a year
- CIS SecureSuite End User Membership (up to 99 employees)$2,400 a year
- CIS SecureSuite Controls Membership$3,600 a year
- CIS SecureSuite End User Membership (100–499 employees)$5,500 a year
- CIS SecureSuite End User (100–499 employees)$5,500 a year
Test Kitchen plans
- Open-source Test KitchenFree
Pick CIS-CAT Pro Assessor if…
It is intended for organizations that need to assess systems against CIS Benchmarks and map results to CIS Controls. End User membership is for internal organizational use, not client or commercial use.
Pick Test Kitchen if…
Test Kitchen suits infrastructure developers who want to provision isolated environments and verify infrastructure code, including Chef cookbook workflows. Users should be comfortable with its Ruby environment and prerequisite virtualization setup.