I'm a security Consultant using CIS-Hosted CSAT and I would like the ability to be an Admin for multiple Organizations with the ability to add existing users to our Organizations.

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CIS-Hosted CSAT is not generally geared towards consultants so much as organizations who wish to assess their own security, and the security of their individual sub-organizations. For the consultants with many sub-organizations, as well as those with differing Admin and User roles among their organizations, CIS-Hosted CSAT is limited in its capacity to create and manipulate sub-organizations and their Admins. Furthermore, it is challenging, if not impossible, to have an Admin of a primary Org also be an Admin to multiple Sub-Orgs. It is a limitation of the free software.

While CIS-Hosted CSAT is free for organizations to use to assess their own organization’s implementation of the CIS Controls, if you are using CSAT in a commercial capacity (as a paid consultant to assess another organization, for instance), you will need to become a CIS SecureSuite Consulting Member. Please see https://www.cisecurity.org/cis-securesuite/pricing-and-categories/services-and-consulting/ for details.

The CSAT Pro software has several features that can benefit the consultant use case that are not available in the free CIS-Hosted version of CSAT. CSAT Pro lets you have multiple organization trees, multiple concurrent assessments in each organization/sub-organization, and a more flexible permission model (so the same user can have different roles in different organizations).

Additionally, if an assessment has already been started in CIS-Hosted CSAT, it is possible to export an assessment from CIS-Hosted CSAT and import it into CSAT Pro.

Here is a blog post with more information regarding the new CSAT Pro: https://www.cisecurity.org/blog/improve-your-organizations-cyber-hygiene-with-cis-csat-pro/ It is also an excellent resource for anyone hoping to do Cyber Security Consultations for multiple sub-organizations.

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