[BESAdmin-Announcements] BigFix Compliance: Updated CIS Checklist for Amazon Linux 2, published 2020-09-10

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

Product:
BigFix Compliance

Title:
Updated CIS Checklist for Amazon Linux 2 Benchmark with bugfixes.

Security Benchmarks:
CIS Amazon Linux 2 Benchmark, v1.0.0

Published Sites:
CIS Checklist for Amazon Linux 2, Site version 2
(The site version is provided for air-gap customers.)

Details:
Fixed and improved implementation for the following checks:

  *   Ensure AIDE is installed
  *   Ensure at/cron is restricted to authorized users
  *   Ensure chrony is configured
  *   Ensure default deny firewall policy
  *   Ensure default user umask is 027 or more restrictive
  *   Ensure filesystem integrity is regularly checked
  *   Ensure inactive password lock is 30 days or less
  *   Ensure IPv6 default deny firewall policy
  *   Ensure IPv6 loopback traffic is configured
  *   Ensure loopback traffic is configured
  *   Ensure nodev option set on /dev/shm partition
  *   Ensure noexec option set on /dev/shm partition
  *   Ensure nosuid option set on /dev/shm partition
  *   Ensure ntp is configured
  *   Ensure permissions on /etc/cron.d are configured
  *   Ensure permissions on bootloader config are configured
  *   Ensure permissions on SSH private host key files are configured
  *   Ensure firewall rules exist for all open ports

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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