[BESAdmin-Announcements] Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Security and Compliance Analytics 1.1 is now available!

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

Dear BESAdmin Community,

We're pleased to announce the general availability of Tivoli Endpoint
Manager for Security and Compliance Analytics 1.1!
All customers currently licensed for Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Security
and Compliance, BigFix SCVM, or BigFix SCM v3 are entitled to this
component.

SCA 1.1 INTRODUCES:
- A HTTP-based data API. This API provides remote-able access to all of the
roll-ups and data elements included in the analytics warehouse.
   A utility that documents and demonstrates the features of the API is
available at
https://www-304.ibm.com/software/brandcatalog/ismlibrary/details?catalog.label=1TW10EP07
- A full-fledged MSI installer delivered via fixlet.
- A range of bug fixes and quality improvements.

Along with the SCA 1.1 release, updates to the SCM Reporting site have been
propagated.


ABOUT TIVOLI ENDPOINT MANAGER FOR SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE ANALYTICS
Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Security and Compliance Analytics (SCA) is a
web-based application for endpoint security and risk assessment. The system
archives endpoint security
compliance check results to help identify configuration issues and report
levels of compliance toward security configuration goals. SCA is a
component of Tivoli Endpoint Manager
for Security and Compliance, which includes libraries of technical checks
(aka controls) and tools based on industry best practices and standards for
endpoint and server security
configuration. The technical checks enable continuous, automated detection
and remediation of security configuration issues.

Report views and tools for managing the SCM checks are provided by SCA. SCA
generates the following reports, which can be filtered, sorted, grouped,
customized using any set
of Tivoli Endpoint Manager properties, and exported:
      Overviews of Compliance: Status and History
      Checklists: Compliance, Status, and History
      Checks: Compliance, Status, Values, and History
      Computers: Compliance, Status, Values, and History
      Computer Groups: Compliance, Status, and History
      Exceptions: Management, Status, and History

More information about the SCA reporting component is available here:
http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/tiw14078usen/TIW14078USEN.PDF


HOW TO GET TIVOLI ENDPOINT MANAGER FOR SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE ANALYTICS
If you are running BES 8.0 or Tivoli Endpoint Manager 8.1 or later and your
server is gathering the SCM Reporting site, a new Security and Compliance
Analytics dashboard is available
in the Security Configuration domain with a utility to download and install
the new Analytics software. The installer will upgrade existing installs of
SCA 1.0 on the same server.

If you are running BES 7.x and you are currently licensed for Tivoli
Endpoint Manager for Security and Compliance, BigFix SCVM, or BigFix SCM
v3, please contact ibmtemlicensing at lotus.com
for access to the new component.

We hope you have a chance to evaluate and adopt this exciting new product
from IBM and the Tivoli Endpoint Manager (built on BigFix technology) team.

Thank you!

  -- The IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager Product Team