[BESAdmin-Announcements] BigFix Compliance: Updated DISA STIG Checklist for AIX 7.x, published 2022-12-20

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

Product:
BigFix Compliance



Title:
Updated DISA STIG Checklist for AIX 7.x to support a more recent version of the benchmark



Security Benchmark:
IBM AIX 7.x Manual STIG Version 2, Release 6



Published Sites:
DISA STIG Checklist for AIX 7.x, site version 5
(The site version is provided for air-gap customers.)



Details:

Release notes:

  *   AIX7-00-001032 Now searches in /root instead of /home/root.
  *   AIX7-00-002141 The group owner of /etc/hosts should be system.
  *   AIX7-00-002145 The group owner of /etc/syslog.conf should be system.
  *   AIX7-00-002147 The owner of /var/spool/cron/atjobs should be bin or root.
  *   AIX7-00-002148 The group owner of /var/spool/cron/atjobs should be cron.
  *   AIX7-00-002058 Now checks for exec.
  *   AIX7-00-001135 Now checks to see if snmpd is active first.

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/10.0/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<https://bigfix-wiki.hcltechsw.com/wikis/home?lang=en-us#!/wiki/BigFix%2520Wiki/page/SCM%2520Checklists>



We hope you find this latest release of SCM content useful and effective. Thank you!

-The BigFix Compliance team

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