[BESAdmin-Announcements] BigFix Compliance: Updated CIS Checklist for CentOS Linux 7, published 2020-11-02

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

Product:
BigFix Compliance

Title:
Updated CIS Checklist for CentOS Linux 7 with bug fixes.

Security Benchmarks:
CIS CentOS Linux 7 Benchmark, v3.0.0

Published Sites:
CIS Checklist for CentOS Linux 7, site version 21
(The site version is provided for air-gap customers.)

Details:
Fixed and improved implementation for the following checks:

  *   Ensure ntp is configured
  *   Ensure gpgcheck is globally activated
  *   Ensure password hashing algorithm is SHA-512
  *   Ensure permissions on all logfiles are configured
  *   Ensure loopback traffic is configured (A)
  *   Ensure loopback traffic is configured (B)
  *   Ensure password creation requirements are configured
  *   Ensure SSH MaxStartups is configured
  *   Ensure SSH warning banner is configured
  *   Ensure rsync is not installed or the rsyncd service is masked

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 BigFix Compliance product and you must be using BigFix version 9.2 and later.
  *   If you use custom sites, update your custom sites accordingly to use the latest content. You can synchronize your content by using the Synchronize Custom Checks wizard. For more information, see https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/9.5/compliance/Compliance/SCM_Users_Guide/c_using_synchronize_custom_checks_wiz.html.

More information:
To know more about the BigFix Compliance SCM checklists, please see the following resources:

  *   BigFix Forum:
https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/compliance

  *   BigFix Compliance SCM Checklists:
https://bigfix-wiki.hcltechsw.com/wikis/home?lang=en-us#!/wiki/BigFix%20Wiki/page/SCM%20Checklists

We hope you find this latest release of SCM content useful and effective. Thank you!
- The BigFix Compliance team

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