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Waukesha IT staff outlines plan to map city policies to CIS cybersecurity controls

3221425 · April 2, 2025
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City IT staff described a plan to map municipal IT policies to the Center for Internet Security (CIS) critical controls, run self-assessments and split policy documents into separate end-user and IT handbooks to reduce duplication and improve audit readiness.

City IT staff told the Waukesha City Information Technology Board on April 2 that they are mapping the city’s IT policies to the Center for Internet Security (CIS) critical controls and using CIS’s self-assessment tools to measure current practice against CIS implementation groups.

Staff described CIS as a free resource for state, local, tribal and territorial agencies and said the mapping supports multiple compliance requirements — including CJIS, PCI and cybersecurity insurance — by highlighting where one policy can satisfy multiple frameworks. The mapping documents will show which existing policies cover which CIS controls and…

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