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    title: Control 7 and its Safeguards
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# Control 7

Control 7 is one of the 18 Controls of the CIS Controls, Version 8.1. CIS's guide, at its v8.1.2 revision, lists 7 Safeguards under it, numbered 7.1 to 7.7.[^cis-v8-1] The schema uses those numbers as their identifiers. Of the Safeguards, 4 are in Implementation Group 1, all 7 in Implementation Group 2 and all 7 in Implementation Group 3. Its Safeguards are about the asset classes Software (5) and Documentation (2).

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 7 they are:

- **Title:** Finding and fixing vulnerabilities
- **Description:** Continually finding, tracking and fixing weaknesses in the enterprise's devices and software, and watching public and private sources for new threats and vulnerabilities.

[^cis-v8-1]: <https://www.cisecurity.org/controls/v8-1>, the guide this page offers, the Safeguards of Control 7
[^edition]: src/cis_controls/data/cis-controls-8.1.2.yaml, Control 7 and its Safeguards