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<div 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 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 6</span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-right:-.5in;text-autospace:none;" ><strong><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >Category:</span></span></strong></div>
<div 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 style="margin-right:-.5in;text-autospace:none;" ><strong><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >Published Benchmark:</span></span></strong>
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<div style="margin-right:-.5in;text-autospace:none;" ><strong><span style="color:#353535;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >CIS Oracle Linux 6</span></span><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >, V1.0.0</span></span></strong></div>
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<div 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>
<ul> <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 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 6</span></span><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >, V1.0.0. </span></span></li> <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;" >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 6</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></li> <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;" >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. </span></span></li></ul>
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<div style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none;" ><strong><span style="color:#353535;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >CIS Checklist for Oracle Linux 6</span></span><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >, site version 1</span></span></strong></div>
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<em>*The site version is provided for air-gap customers.</em></span></span></div>
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<div 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> <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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<div 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;" >More information:</span></span></strong><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >
To know more about IBM BigFix Compliance SCM checklists, please see </span></span></div>
<ul> <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>
<div style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:.25in;text-autospace:none;" ><a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en%22%20%5Cl%20%22!/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/SCM%20Checklists%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank" ><span style="color:#4178be;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/SCM%20Checklists</span></span></a><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >
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<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none;" ><a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en%22%20%5Cl%20%22!/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/SCM%20Checklist%20Deployment%20Best%20Practices" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/SCM%20Checklist%20Deployment%20Best%20Practices</span></a></div>
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<ul> <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 Blog for Checklist Release Announcement: </span></span></li></ul>
<div style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:.25in;text-autospace:none;" ><a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/groups/service/html/community/updates?communityUuid=a1a33778-88b7-452a-9133-c955812f8910&filter=all" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" >https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/groups/service/html/community/updates?communityUuid=a1a33778-88b7-452a-9133-c955812f8910&filter=all</span></a></div>
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<div><em><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" > -- The IBM BigFix Compliance team</span></span></em></div>
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