[BESAdmin-Announcements] New USGCB-based Tivoli Endpoint Manager security compliance content available!

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

Dear BESAdmin Community,

IBM is pleased to announce the availability of several new security
configuration management checklists for Tivoli Endpoint Manager for
Security and Compliance. The new checklists, based on guidance provided by
NIST through the United States Government Configuration Baseline (USGCB),
are:
   - USGCB Checklist for Internet Explorer 8
   - USGCB Checklist for Windows 7 Energy
   - USGCB Checklist for Windows 7 Firewall

Each of these content sites contain security configuration checks that
evaluate and, if desired, remediate the security settings of your endpoints
according the USGCB configuration baselines designed "to improve and
maintain effective configuration settings focusing primarily on
security" (http://usgcb.nist.gov/). As with most of the existing SCM
content in the Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Security and Compliance library,
most checks include a corresponding analysis property to report actual
values (not just pass/fail), and most checks have a parameterized setting
enabling simple customization for compliance evaluation and remediation.

In addition to the new sites, the following existing sites have been
updated to be compatible with the new content:
   - SCM Reporting
   - BES Support


ACTIONS TO TAKE
All customers that currently license the Tivoli Endpoint Manager for
Security and Compliance product, the BigFix SCMv3 solution module, the
BigFix SCVM solution pack, or the BigFix SLM+SCVM solution bundle are
entitled to the new content. If you are using BES 8.0 or Tivoli Endpoint
Manager 8.1 and you are entitled to the new content, you may use the
License Overview dashboard to enable and gather the sites. If you are
running BES 7.x and you are currently licensed for Tivoli Endpoint Manager
for Security and Compliance, BigFix SCVM, BigFix SLM+SCVM, or BigFix SCM
v3, please contact ibmtemlicensing at lotus.com for access to the new
mastheads.

Thank you!

  -- The Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Security and Compliance product team