[BESAdmin-Announcements] BigFix Compliance: New PCI DSS Checklist for MacOS (Consolidated), published 2025-09-10

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

*Product:*
BigFix Compliance

*Title:*
New PCI DSS Checklist for MacOS (Consolidated) to support a more recent
version of the benchmark


*Category: *PCI DSS Checklist

*Security Benchmark:*
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, V4.0.1

*Published Sites:*
PCI DSS Checklist for MacOS (Consolidated), site version 1
PCI DSS Reporting, version 27.
(The site version is provided for air-gap customers.)

*Details:*

Total New Fixlets: 172

Total Requirements covered: 8
Total Milestones covered: 4

●      The BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on team is pleased to announce the
availability of the new checklist for BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on: PCI DSS
Checklist for MacOS (Consolidated) which includes coverage for MacOS
13, MacOS14
and MacOS 15.

●      This new checklist is based on the guidance provided by the Payment
Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v4.0.1 and contains security
configuration checks that evaluate the security settings of your MacOS
endpoints according to the PCI DSS standard.

●      As with most of the existing PCI DSS contents in the BigFix
Compliance PCI Add-on library, this checklist includes checks with:

○      Corresponding analyses properties to report actual values.

○      Standardized titles, descriptions, and measured values for enhanced
readability and consistency.

○      The ability to ensure correctness of compliance data.

○      Some of the checks allow you to use the parameterized setting to
enable customization for compliance evaluation.

○      Most of the checks also support remediation that allows BigFix
operators to efficiently remediate a non-compliance issue with a single
action.

●      The following PCI DSS Policies are refreshed with the latest content
from the PCI DSS Checklist for MacOS (Consolidated) site:

○      PCI DSS Checklists

○      PCI DSS Milestones View

○      PCI DSS Requirements View

*Actions to take:*

●      Use the License Overview dashboard from the BES Support site to
enable and gather the said site. Note that you must be entitled to the new
content, and you are using BigFix version 10.0 and later.

●      Create a custom site for the PCI DSS Checklist for MacOS
(Consolidated) site to display the MacOS results in the PCI DSS Policy
Reports.

●      If you were involved in the Beta / Early Access Program for BigFix
Compliance PCI Add-on, unsubscribe from the beta sites to avoid any
conflicting issues with the production sites. If you do not unsubscribe
from the beta sites, the content in the production sites will fail.


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

●      BigFix Forum:
https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/pci-add-on

●      BigFix Compliance SCM Checklists:
<https://bigfix-wiki.hcltechsw.com/wikis/home?lang=enus#!/wiki/BigFix%20Wiki/page/SCM%20Checklists>
https://bigfix-wiki.hcltechsw.com/wikis/home?lang=enus#!/wiki/BigFix%20Wiki/page/SCM%20Checklists

●      BigFix PCI Add-on User’s Guide:
*https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/compliance/Compliance/pci.html
<https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/compliance/Compliance/pci.html>*

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

*– The BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on team*
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