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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;"><font color="#4f4f4f">IBM Endpoint Manager for Security and Compliance </font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;"><font color="#4f4f4f">Security Configuration Management (SCM)</font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><font color="#2f2f2f">The
Security and Compliance team at IBM has updated the content in the following
sites. See details below:</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><font color="#2f2f2f">Updated
Sites:<br style="mso-special-character:line-break"><br style="mso-special-character:line-break"></font></span></u></b><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black"></span></b></p>
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Name</span></b></p> </td> <td style="width:72.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left:none;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="96"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Site
Version</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:1"> <td style="width:261.4pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="349"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom: 5.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none">CIS
Checklist for AIX 7_1 RG03</p> </td> <td style="width:72.2pt;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="96"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:Calibri">6</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:2;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="width:261.4pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="349"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:serif">SCM Checklist for CIS on
AIX 7_1 RG03</span></p> </td> <td style="width:72.2pt;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="96"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:Calibri">6</span></p> </td> </tr></tbody></table>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><font color="#2f2f2f">Changelist:</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><font color="#2f2f2f">The following checks were rewritten to parse config
files directly without using lsuser -c ALL:</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><font color="#2f2f2f">CIS-3.7.9.3.2</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><font color="#2f2f2f">CIS-4.11.18</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><font color="#2f2f2f">CIS-4.11.19</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><font color="#2f2f2f">CIS-4.12.9</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><font color="#2f2f2f">*Site
versions provided for air-gap customers.</font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">We hope
you find this latest release of SCM content useful and effective. Thank you!</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>-- The IBM
Endpoint Manager for Security and Compliance</span></i><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Helv;color:black"><br style="mso-special-character:line-break"><br style="mso-special-character:line-break"></span></p>
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