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description: "Control 13 of the CIS Controls, Version 8.1, which the edition file titles Watching and defending the network in the project's own words: it holds 11 Safeguards, 13.1 to 13.11, of which none is in Implementation Group 1, 6 in Implementation Group 2 and all 11 in Implementation Group 3."
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    title: the guide this page offers, v8.1.2 of March 2025, read on 2026-10-30
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    title: Control 13 and its Safeguards
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# Control 13

Control 13 is one of the 18 Controls of the CIS Controls, Version 8.1. CIS's guide, at its v8.1.2 revision, lists 11 Safeguards under it, numbered 13.1 to 13.11.[^cis-v8-1] The schema uses those numbers as their identifiers. Of the Safeguards, none is in Implementation Group 1, 6 in Implementation Group 2 and all 11 in Implementation Group 3. Its Safeguards are about the asset classes Network (8) and Devices (3).

This bundle leaves out CIS's name and description for the Control and CIS's text for its Safeguards, because CIS licenses that text under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; CIS's guide gives them, and [the guide's reference](../references/cis-controls-guide.md) says where to find it. The edition file gives the Control and each of its Safeguards a title and a description in the project's own words, written from what each requires.[^edition] For Control 13 they are:

- **Title:** Watching and defending the network
- **Description:** Processes and tools that monitor the enterprise's network and users for threats and defend against them.

[^cis-v8-1]: <https://www.cisecurity.org/controls/v8-1>, the guide this page offers, the Safeguards of Control 13
[^edition]: src/cis_controls/data/cis-controls-8.1.2.yaml, Control 13 and its Safeguards