Why CTRL 18
CIOs have ITSM.
CROs have CRM.
CFOs have ERP.
CISOs now have CTRL 18.

Every other leader in the business runs on a system of record. The CISO has been left to decide in spreadsheets, vendor PDFs and gut feel. CTRL 18 is the platform that changes that — a Cyber Decision Platform built for the way security leaders actually decide.

The status quo

More tools. More noise. No clearer decision.

The average security program runs dozens of tools, each with its own dashboard and its own definition of "critical." None of them answer the only questions that matter to the business: Where do we actually stand? What do we fix first? What is it worth? The result is decision-making by heatmap — defensible to no one, least of all the board.

Why the 18

We named ourselves after the 18 things that matter most.

The CIS Controls v8 are the industry's most widely adopted, community-built defense standard — 18 controls, 153 safeguards, ranked so you do the high-impact work first. They're recognized by auditors, insurers and regulators, and they map onto everything a regulated Indian enterprise already answers to: DPDPA 2023, SEBI CSCRF, NIST CSF 2.0 and ISO 27001. Answer the 18 once; satisfy many.

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CIS Controls
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Safeguards
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Implementation Groups
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Source of control
The 18, in priority order
  1. 01Enterprise Assets
  2. 02Software Assets
  3. 03Data Protection
  4. 04Secure Configuration
  5. 05Account Management
  6. 06Access Control
  7. 07Continuous Vulnerability Management
  8. 08Audit Log Management
  9. 09Email & Web Browser Protections
  10. 10Malware Defenses
  11. 11Data Recovery
  12. 12Network Infrastructure
  13. 13Network Monitoring & Defense
  14. 14Security Awareness Training
  15. 15Service Provider Management
  16. 16Application Software Security
  17. 17Incident Response
  18. 18Penetration Testing

IG1: 56 · IG2: 130 · IG3: 153 safeguards.

See gaps as attack paths

A control gap is only abstract until you see how it gets exploited.

CTRL 18 projects every CIS gap onto the MITRE ATT&CK framework and the Lockheed Martin Kill Chain, so a weak safeguard stops being a spreadsheet row and becomes a visible path an attacker could walk — from initial access to impact. That's what turns "we're weak on Control 7" into a decision a CISO can defend and a board can fund.

From posture to decision

Across People, Process and Technology.

CTRL 18 turns your mapped posture and attack paths into a prioritized set of decisions spanning People, Process and Technology — each with the risk reduction quantified in dollars by the CTRL 18 risk engine (probabilistic loss modeling, anchored to NIST SP 800-30 / IR 8286 and ISO 27005). Not a list of findings. A ranked set of decisions, with a price on each.

Why it's defensible

Prioritized beats comprehensive.

The CIS 18 tell you what to fix first, not just what's wrong.

Evidence beats opinion.

Live telemetry and documents over self-graded surveys.

Standards beat black boxes.

Anchored to CIS, NIST and ISO — nothing proprietary to argue with.

Give your security team a system of record.

See CTRL 18 map your posture, surface your real attack paths, and put your risk in dollars.