<Li> Maximize use of automation to enforce security controls, thereby negating human errors, and </Li> <Li> Use consensus process to collect best ideas . </Li> <P> Version 3.0 was released on April 13, 2011 . Version 5.0 was released on February 2, 2014 by the Council on Cyber Security (CCS). Version 6.0 was released on October 15, 2015 and consists of the security controls below . Version 6.1 was released on August 31, 2016 and has the same priorization as version 6 . Version 7 has been released March 19 2018 . Compared to version 5, version 6 / 6.1 has re-prioritized the controls and changed these two controls: </P> <Ul> <Li>' Secure Network Engineering' was CSC 19 in version 5 but has been deleted in version 6 / 6.1 . </Li> <Li>' CSC 7: Email and Web Browser Protections' has been added in version 6 / 6.1 . </Li> </Ul>

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