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<div dir="ltr" style="margin-right:-.5in;text-autospace:none;" ><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >IBM BigFix Compliance 

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<div dir="ltr" style="margin-right:-.5in;text-autospace:none;" ><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >New Security Configuration Management (SCM) </span></span><span style="color:#353535;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >CIS Checklist for Oracle Linux 7</span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="margin-right:-.5in;text-autospace:none;" ><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >New SCM checklist</span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="margin-right:-.5in;text-autospace:none;" ><span style="color:#353535;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >CIS Checklist for Oracle Linux 7</span></span><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >, V1.1.0</span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none;" ><strong><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >Details:</span></span></strong></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none;" ><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >IBM is pleased to announce the availability of a new Security Configuration Management (SCM) checklist for IBM BigFix Compliance.  The checklist is based on Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmark for </span></span><span style="color:#353535;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >Oracle Linux 7</span></span><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >, V1.1.0.  </span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none;" ><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >This checklist contains a number of checks to evaluate the security configurations of your </span></span><span style="color:#353535;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >Oracle Linux 7</span></span><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" > endpoints based on the CIS Benchmark.  Both analysis and remediation checks are included<em>.</em></span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none;" ><strong><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >Actions to Take:</span></span></strong></div>
<ul dir="ltr" >        <li style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;text-autospace:none;" ><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >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 BigiFix Compliance product and you must be using IBM BigFix version 9.2 and later. </span></span></li></ul>
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To know more about IBM BigFix Compliance SCM checklists, please see </span></span></div>
<ul dir="ltr" >        <li style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;text-autospace:none;" ><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >IBM Developer Works:</span></span></li></ul>
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<div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none;" ><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >We hope you find this latest release of SCM content useful and effective. Thank you!</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" ><em><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" > -- The IBM BigFix Compliance team</span></span></em></div></div></div><BR>