--- type: Reference id: https://w3id.org/lmodel/cis-controls/knowledge/references/cis-controls-site genre: reference title: CIS's pages on the CIS Controls description: "The public pages of the Center for Internet Security (CIS) that the schema and this bundle cite: the list of the 18 Controls, the Implementation Groups pages with their counts of Safeguards (56, 130 and 153), and the page on the guide to the asset classes." resource: https://www.cisecurity.org/controls/cis-controls-list sources: - id: cis-controls-list resource: https://www.cisecurity.org/controls/cis-controls-list title: the page's title and links, read on 2026-10-30 - id: cis-implementation-groups resource: https://www.cisecurity.org/controls/implementation-groups title: the total of Safeguards, read on 2026-10-30 - id: cis-asset-classes resource: https://www.cisecurity.org/insights/white-papers/guide-to-asset-classes-cis-critical-security-controls-v8-1 title: the page on CIS's guide to the asset classes, read on 2026-10-30 generated: by: process:ktl-librarian at: "2026-10-30T23:47:49Z" status: draft --- # CIS's pages on the CIS Controls CIS's list of the Controls is titled with their number, 18, and links the resources for Version 8.1 and the earlier Versions 8 and 7.1.[^cis-controls-list] CIS's page on the Implementation Groups says that Versions 8 and 8.1 hold 153 Safeguards. It links a page for each group, which gives the group's count: 56 in IG1, 74 more in IG2 and 23 more in IG3.[^cis-implementation-groups] CIS's page on its guide to the asset classes, published on May 12, 2025, says that Version 8.1 restructured the asset classes and their definitions. The guide itself asks for a registration.[^cis-asset-classes] The schema's `see_also` names these pages, and its comments take the counts from them. The upstream watch reads the list page and the page for Version 8.1 every week. [^cis-controls-list]: , the page's title and links [^cis-implementation-groups]: , the total, and the pages for each group [^cis-asset-classes]: , the page's summary