IBM BigFix Patches for Windows has enhanced the Microsoft Rollback Task Wizard to support the rollback of rollup updates on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. There is no change to the use of the wizard. You must be subscribed to the Patching Support site to use the wizard. Enable the Patch and Rollback Analysis to identify the KB number. From the wizard, enter the KB number and select the OS to rollback to the earlier version. For more information about the Windows Rollback Wizard, see Using the Rollback Task Wizard:... [More]

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BigFix Patch is pleased to pre-announce the release of an enhanced download plug-in for Red Hat. The new download plug-in uses Red Hat Subscription Management (RHSM) to download patches from a vendor’s website to the BigFix server.   The RHSM download plug-in will be available in the Manage Download Plug-ins dashboard as a new plug-in entry called RHSM Plug-in. All patch Fixlets are updated to use the RHSM Plug-in. The RHEL Plug-in will still be available to allow customers to use the Fixlets that are in custom sites. However, the... [More]

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Product: IBM BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on   Title: PCI DSS Checklist for RHEL 6 is updated to support both RHEL 6 and CentOS 6   Category: Updated PCI DSS checklist   Published Benchmark: Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard v3.2   Details: CentOS 6 is now supported in the PCI DSS Checklist for RHEL 6. This additional support is based on the guidance provided by the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v3.2 and on existing checks that are included in the PCI DSS Checklist for RHEL 6. The available... [More]

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Product: IBM BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on   Title: Updated the PCI DSS Checklists for RHEL 6 and Windows 2012 for various enhancements   Category: Updated PCI DSS checklist   Published Benchmark: Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard v3.2   Details: PCI DSS Requirements and Milestones Reporting in BigFix Compliance Analytics 1.8 In order to provide PCI DSS Requirements and Milestones based reporting, BigFix provides supplemental reports which can be installed in custom sites using an installer. The installer is... [More]

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IBM BigFix Patch is pleased to announce that the Fixlet relevance for the Security Advisories (SA) for 2016 have been enhanced to avoid possible false positives. False positives can occur when a Fixlet identifies a computer to be relevant for a vulnerability, but in fact, it is not. This content update helps improve the accuracy and reliability of the Fixlets. Published Site Version: Patches for AIX site, version 530   Actions to Take: Gathering of the site will automatically show the updates. Application Engineering Team IBM BigFix Patch

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Product: IBM BigFix Compliance    Title:  New Security Configuration Management (SCM)  CIS Checklist for CentOS Linux 6   Security Benchmark: CIS CentOS Linux 6 Benchmark , V2.0.1   Published Site: CIS Checklist for CentOS Linux 6 , site version 1 (The site version is provided for air-gap customers.)   Actions to take: To subscribe to the above site, you can use the License Overview Dashboard to enable and gather the site. Note that you must be entitled to the BigiFix Compliance product and you must... [More]

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Product: IBM BigFix Compliance    Title:  New Security Configuration Management (SCM)  CIS Checklist for Mac OS X 10.8   Security Benchmark: CIS Mac OS X 10.8 Benchmark , V1.3.0   Published Site: CIS Checklist for Mac OS X 10.8 , site version 1 (The site version is provided for air-gap customers.)   Actions to take: To subscribe to the above site, you can use the License Overview Dashboard to enable and gather the site. Note that you must be entitled to the BigiFix Compliance product and you must be... [More]

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Product: IBM BigFix Compliance   Title: Updated Security Configuration Management (SCM) DISA STIG Checklist for Solaris 11   Security Benchmark: Solaris 11 SPARC Manual STIG, V1, R8   Details: IBM is pleased to announce the availability of an updated Security Configuration Management (SCM) checklist for IBM BigFix Compliance.  The checklist is based on DISA STIG Solaris 11, V1, R8 This checklist contains a number of checks to evaluate the security configurations of your Solaris 11 endpoints based on the STIG.  Both... [More]

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Product: IBM BigFix Compliance    Title:  Updated Security Configuration Management (SCM)  DISA STIG Checklist for Windows 2008 R2   Security Benchmark: DISA Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 STIG Benchmark , V1, R19   Published Sites: DISA STIG Checklist for Windows 2008 R2 DC , site version 21 DISA STIG Checklist for Windows 2008 R2 MS , site version 21 (The site version is provided for air-gap customers.)   Actions to take: To subscribe to the above sites, you can use the License Overview Dashboard... [More]

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