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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Product: IBM BigFix Compliance   Title: Updated Security Configuration Management (SCM) DISA STIG Checklist for Windows 7   Category: Updated SCM checklist   Published Benchmark version: DISA STIG Checklist for Windows 7 , V1, R28   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 for Windows 7, V1, R28.     This checklist contains a number of checks to evaluate the security... [More]

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   Title:  Including "STIG" in the names of some DISA checklist sites as a preferred naming convention.   Category: Updating SCM checklists   Published Benchmark: These are site name changes only.  No checklist contents are affected.   Details: IBM is pleased to announce that the following published SCM checklist site names are updated to include STIG in the site names   DISA Checklist for Mac OS X 10.8, site version 2 —> DISA STIG Checklist for Mac OS X... [More]

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Product: IBM BigFix Compliance  Title:  New Security Configuration Management (SCM) CIS Checklist for Oracle Linux 7   Category: New SCM checklist   Published Benchmark: CIS Checklist for Oracle Linux 7 , V1.1.0 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 7 , V1.1.0.   This checklist contains a number of checks to evaluate the... [More]

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Product: IBM BigFix Compliance  Title:  New Security Configuration Management (SCM) CIS Checklist for Mac OS X 10.11   Category: New SCM checklist   Published Benchmark: CIS Checklist for Mac OS X 10.11 , 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 Mac OS X 10.11 , V1.0.0.     This checklist contains a number of checks to... [More]

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Product: IBM BigFix Compliance  Title:  Updated Security Configuration Management (SCM) DISA STIG Checklist for Windows 8   Category: Updated SCM checklist Published Benchmark version: DISA STIG Checklist for Windows 8 , V1, R13 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 for Windows 8, V1, R13.   This checklist contains a number of checks to evaluate the security configurations of... [More]

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IBM Bigfix Compliance   Title: IBM Bigfix Compliance team releases new site for CIS Checklist for Mac OS X 10.9 v1.2.0    IBM is pleased to announce the availability of a new security configuration management checklist for IBM Bigfix Compliance. The new checklist is based on guidance provided by Center for Internet security (CIS).     New Site:   CIS Checklist for Mac OS X 10.9  site version  1   *Site versions provided for air-gap customers.   ACTIONS TO TAKE All customers that are currently... [More]

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IBM Bigfix Compliance    Security Configuration Management (SCM)   The IBM Bigfix Compliance team at IBM has updated the content in DISA Windows 2012. See details below:   Updated Sites: DISA STIG Checklist for Windows 2012 DC  = site version  8   DISA STIG Checklist for Windows 2012 MS  = site version  9     Changelist: The DISA content has been refreshed to DISA version 2 release 4.               *Site versions provided for... [More]

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IBM Bigfix Compliance    Security Configuration Management (SCM)   The Security and Compliance team at IBM has updated the content in the following site. See details below:   Updated Site:   Site Name Site Version 1 DISA STIG Checklist for Mac OS X 10.8 2   Changelist: Minor change to measured value / remediation were made to following checks:   OSX8-00-00030 OSX8-00-00045 OSX8-00-00120 OSX8-00-00125 OSX8-00-00130 OSX8-00-00135 OSX8-00-00170 OSX8-00-00225 OSX8-00-01125   Fixed and improved... [More]

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IBM Bigfix Compliance   Title: Security Configuration Management (SCM) releases new site for DISA Checklist for Mac OS X 10.9 v1r1   IBM is pleased to announce the availability of a new security configuration management checklist for IBM Endpoint Manager for Security and Compliance. The new checklist is based on guidance provided by Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).   New Site:   DISA Checklist for Mac OS X 10.9  site version  1   *Site versions provided for air-gap customers.   ACTIONS TO TAKE... [More]

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IBM Endpoint Manager for Security and Compliance   Security Configuration Management (SCM)   The Security and Compliance team at IBM has updated the content in CIS Checklist for RHEL 6, without any change to the benchmark version. See details below:  Updated Site: CIS Checklist for RHEL 6 ,  site version  12 Changelist: ·           Updated the description of “Deploy and Run” task, to include details about using the “Configure Filesystem... [More]

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IBM Endpoint Manager for Security and Compliance        Security Configuration Management (SCM)   The Security and Compliance team at IBM has updated the content in the following CIS and DISA checklists, without any change to their benchmark versions. See details below:  Updated Sites: CIS Checklist for Internet Explorer 10,  site version  4 CIS Checklist for Windows 7,  site version  8   CIS Checklist for Windows 8.1,  site version  4 CIS Checklist for Windows 10, ... [More]

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IBM Endpoint Manager for Security and Compliance     Security Configuration Management (SCM)     The Security and Compliance team at IBM has updated the content in CIS Checklist for RHEL 5. See details below:    Updated Site: CIS Checklist for RHEL 5 =  site version 7   Changelist: Benchmark version is refreshed to v2.2.0 Removed "Configure Filesystem Scan Options" task. Its features are integrated into "Deploy and Run CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Benchmark v2.2.0" task. Changed... [More]

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