# Operational Best Practices for CIS Critical Security Controls v8 IG1
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Conformance packs provide a general-purpose compliance framework designed to enable you to create security, operational or cost-optimization governance checks using managed or custom AWS Config rules and AWS Config remediation actions. Conformance Packs, as sample templates, are not designed to fully ensure compliance with a specific governance or compliance standard. You are responsible for making your own assessment of whether your use of the Services meets applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

 The following provides a sample mapping between the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Critical Security Controls v8 IG1 and AWS managed Config rules. Each AWS Config applies to a specific AWS resource, and relates to one or more CIS Critical Security Controls v8 IG1 controls. A CIS Critical Security Controls v8 IG1 control can be related to multiple AWS Config rules. Refer to the table below for more detail and guidance related to these mappings.


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## Template
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The template is available on GitHub: [ Operational Best Practices for CIS Critical Security Controls v8 IG1](https://github.com/awslabs/aws-config-rules/blob/master/aws-config-conformance-packs/Operational-Best-Practices-for-CIS-Critical-Security-Controls-v8-IG1.yaml).