[BESAdmin-Announcements] BigFix Compliance: Updated CIS Checklist for Amazon Linux 2 with bug fixes, published 2025-10-10

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

*Product:*
BigFix Compliance

*Title:*
Updated CIS Checklist for Amazon Linux 2
<https://forum.bigfix.com/t/bigfix-compliance-updated-cis-checklist-for-ubuntu-linux-20-04-published-2025-06-16/52036>
with bug fixes

*Security Benchmark:*
CIS Amazon Linux 2 Benchmark V3.0.0

*Published Sites:*
CIS Checklist for Amazon Linux 2
<https://forum.bigfix.com/t/bigfix-compliance-updated-cis-checklist-for-ubuntu-linux-20-04-published-2025-06-16/52036>,
site version 9
(The site version is provided for air-gap customers.)

*Details:*

*Modified logics for these checks:*

●      Ensure auditing for processes that start prior to audit is enabled

●      Ensure audit_backlog_limit is sufficient

●      Ensure the running and on disk configuration is the same

●      Ensure no duplicate GIDs exist

●      Ensure no duplicate group names exist

●      Ensure no duplicate UIDs exist

●      Ensure no duplicate user names exist

*Additional details:*
● Both analysis and remediation checks are included
● Some of the checks allow you to use the parameterized setting to enable
customization for compliance evaluation. Note that parameterization and
remediation actions require the creation of a custom site.
Improved few checks by adding the pending restart feature to them. The
pending restart feature works in the following ways:
● The action results will show “Pending Restart” instead of “Fixed” for
those checks which requires OS reboot.
● The check will show relevant for those endpoints until they are rebooted.
● Post reboot of the endpoint the action results will show as “Fixed” and
the check will be compliant.



*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 10 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 Using the Synchronize
Custom Checks wizard
More information:
To know more about the BigFix Compliance SCM checklists, please see the
following resources:


● BigFix Forum:
*Compliance (Release Announcements)*
<https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/compliance/63>

This category is used by HCL to announce new releases for BigFix Compliance.

● BigFix Compliance SCM Checklists:
Welcome to Wikis
We hope you find this latest release of SCM content useful and effective.

Thank you!
*– The BigFix Compliance team*
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