The 'Patches for SLE10' and 'Patches for SLE10 System Z' sites have been deprecated and are no longer supported by BigFix Patch. To know more, refer to the previous announcements in  July  and  early September .   Application Engineering Team BigFix Patch

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Dear IBM BigFix Customers:   If you have purchased the BigFix Protection product, we woud like to get your attention to very important information related with the product.   End of Marking and End of Support for IBM BigFix Protection IBM has announced to withdraw the BigFix Protection product from marketing, effective December 16, 2016 . You can no longer purchase this product directly from IBM after that date. For existing BigFix Protection customers, the renewal for BigFix Protection S&S (subscription and support) will not be... [More]

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Product: IBM BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on   Title: New PCI DSS Checklist for Windows 10   Category: New PCI DSS checklist   Published Benchmark: Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard v3.2   Details: The IBM BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on team is pleased to announce the availability of the new checklist for IBM BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on: PCI DSS Checklist for Windows 10. This new checklist is based on the guidance provided by the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v3.2 and contains security... [More]

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IBM BigFix will not be releasing Fixlets for KB3193494 and  KB3193821, which cover Windows 10 Security Updates. Microsoft released these two security updates, which had corresponding earlier releases (3189866 and 3185611) that were published on September 13, 2016. A network transmission issue affected the earlier updates. The two updates include the same set of fixes as the earlier updates. BigFix previously released Fixlets for the earlier updates, and have confirmed that patches applied through BigFix are not affected by the issue. As... [More]

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UPDATE: Kindly note that the deprecation date for the "Patches for CentOS 5" and "Patches for CentOS 6" sites has been changed from January 31, 2017 to December 31, 2016 . Apologies for the inconvenience caused.    After December 31, 2016 , BigFix Patch will no longer provide content and support for these sites. The deprecated sites will no longer be available on the License Overview dashboard.    You  are encouraged to migrate at your earliest convenience to the Native Tools versions of these... [More]

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  UPDATE: Kindly note that the deprecation date has been changed to December 31, 2016 instead of what was originally indicated in this post. Apologies for the inconvenience caused.   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   To facilitate bringing our users the best combination of functionality and usability, IBM BigFix Patch will deprecate the following non-native tools sites for CentOS Linux on  January 31, 2017 . Patches for CentOS 5 Patches for... [More]

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Product: IBM BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on   Title: Updated PCI DSS Checklist for Windows 2008 with improved data presentation   Category: Updated PCI DSS Checklist   Published Benchmark: Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard v3.2   Details: The IBM BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on team has updated the content of the PCI DSS checklist for Windows 2008 to improve the data presentation. Details are as follows: The measured values for each check, which can be viewed in the BigFix console, analyses, and SCA reports are... [More]

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Content in the Patches for Windows Site has been released. New Fixlets: Fixlets for Microsoft Security Bulletins:     MS16-104     MS16-105     MS16-106     MS16-107     MS16-108     MS16-109     MS16-110     MS16-111     MS16-112     MS16-113     MS16-114     MS16-115     MS16-116     MS16-117 [Major] 3174644: Security advisory: Updated... [More]

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IBM BigFix Patch is pleased to announce its support for more languages for the Windows 10 Feature Upgrade. A prior BigFix release in May 2016 supported English (United States) and Japanese language versions. In this release, BigFix Patch expands its coverage to include the following language versions: Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Czech Danish Dutch English (United Kingdom) Finnish French French (Canada) German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Italian Korean Norwegian Polish Portuguese (Brazil) Russian Spanish Spanish (Mexico) Swedish... [More]

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As previously announced in July , the ‘Patches for SLE10’ and ‘Patches for SLE10 System Z’ sites are to be deprecated by September 30, 2016. BigFix Patch will no longer support these sites beyond the stated date.   We would like to remind you to upgrade to the latest version of SUSE Linux Enterprise should you want to receive the latest patch content from BigFix.   Application Engineering Team BigFix Patch  

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Product: IBM BigFix Compliance    Title:  New Security Configuration Management (SCM)  CIS Checklist for Oracle Linux 6   Category: New SCM checklist   Published Benchmark: CIS Oracle Linux 6 , V1.0.0   Details: IBM is pleased to announce the availability of a new Security Configuration Management (SCM) checklist for IBM BigFix Compliance.  The checklist is based on Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmark for  Oracle Linux 6 , V1.0.0.   This checklist contains a number of checks to evaluate... [More]

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Patch management as of today Software vendors have published individual patches for a long time. This fragmented approach allowed vendors to ship purpose specific patches quickly. Endpoint customers also received the benefit of selecting patches that they considered fit for deployment in their environment and thus control the distribution of the content. But the faster delivery and the controlled distribution came with a cost which was primarily absorbed by the endpoint customers. Software vendors were able to limit the scope of testing to... [More]

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IBM BigFix Patch is pleased to announce the publication of the "Best Practices Guide for Patching AIX systems Using BigFix."   This guide contains a compilation of best practices, assumptions, and requirements to help both AIX system administrators and BigFix console operators to successfully patch AIX endpoints using BigFix. To download the guide in PDF format, click here .   If you have any comments about the content, feel free to post them in this forum . Thank you!   Other Documentation Resources: Best Practices for... [More]

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Content in the Patches for Windows Site has been released. New Fixlets: Fixlets for Microsoft Security Bulletins:     MS16-095     MS16-096     MS16-097     MS16-098     MS16-099     MS16-100     MS16-101     MS16-102     MS16-103 [Major] MS16-054: Security Update for Microsoft Office - Office Compatibility Pack SP3 - KB3115464    (ID: 311546401) Modified Fixlets: [Minor] MS16-077: Security Update... [More]

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