Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) is a widely adopted web server platform, yet its inherent complexity in configuration presents significant security challenges and vulnerabilities for organizations. Manually securing IIS servers is often a costly, repetitive, and time-consuming endeavor, frequently leading to critical function disruptions and extensive testing in lab environments before production deployment. CalCom Security Solution (CSS) for IIS Server directly addresses these challenges by providing an automated hardening solution specifically designed for securing and managing web server middleware. It ensures continuous hardening, which is crucial for systems exposed to the web and unknown users, thereby reducing the IT workload associated with maintaining locked-down systems. CSS helps organizations achieve and maintain compliance with various standards such as CIS, CMMC, FFIEC, HIPAA, NIST, and PCI, by automating the deployment of secure configurations and preventing configuration drift. The solution strengthens server defenses, building an unbreachable foundation for digital assets and simplifying the path to continuous compliance.

Features & Benefits

• Learning Mode
  • Optimizes security with zero downtime by simulating policy impact on production environments.
  • Identifies why an object can’t be hardened and saves it as an exception.
  • Compares policies to apply the strictest one without impacting operations.
  • Learns a single IIS server to apply policies across identical servers.
  • Helps manage conflicts with Group Policy Objects (GPO).
• Enforcement Mode
  • Provides a custom server hardening mode for applying security policies.
• Monitoring Mode
  • Offers real-time access control protection to ensure continuous security.
• Rollback
  • Enables safe undo of enforcement actions when needed, minimizing risk.
• Centralized Enforcement
  • Simplifies and secures management of hardening policies.
  • Limits enforcement-level authorization to essential personnel.
  • Prevents configuration drift with streamlined management.
  • Supports cross-platform changes with one-click rollback and tracking.
  • Enables easy policy updates from a centralized dashboard.
• Applied Change Control
  • Ensures continuous hardening by maintaining consistent security across all servers.
  • Conducts automatic gap analysis at scheduled intervals.
  • Detects unauthorized configuration changes.
  • Enforces hardened values to prevent configuration drift.
  • Maintains consistent security across all servers.