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<div style="background:white;" ><strong><span style="background:white;" ><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" ><span style="font-size:10.5pt;" >Title: </span></span></span></span></strong><br><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" ><span style="font-size:10.5pt;" ><span style="background:white;" >New Security Configuration Management (SCM) </span></span></span></span><span style="color:#353535;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" ><span style="font-size:10.5pt;" >CIS Checklist for Mac OS X 10.8 </span></span></span></div>
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<div style="background:white;" ><strong><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" ><span style="font-size:10.5pt;" >Security Benchmark:</span></span></span></strong><br><span style="color:#353535;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" ><span style="font-size:10.5pt;" >CIS Mac OS X 10.8 Benchmark</span></span></span><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" ><span style="font-size:10.5pt;" >, V1.3.0</span></span></span></div>
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<div style="background:white;" ><strong><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" ><span style="font-size:10.5pt;" >Published Site:</span></span></span></strong><br><span style="color:#353535;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" ><span style="font-size:10.5pt;" >CIS Checklist for Mac OS X 10.8</span></span></span><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" ><span style="font-size:10.5pt;" >, site version 1</span><br><em>(The site version is provided for air-gap customers.)</em></span></span></div>
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<div style="background:white;" ><strong><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" ><span style="font-size:10.5pt;" >Actions to take:</span></span></span></strong></div>
<ul> <li style="text-autospace:none;" ><span style="color:#353535;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" ><span style="font-size:10.5pt;" >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></span></li></ul>
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<div style="background:white;" ><strong><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" ><span style="font-size:10.5pt;" >Details:</span></span></span></strong></div>
<ul> <li style="background:white;" ><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" ><span style="font-size:10.5pt;" >Both analysis and remediation checks are included</span></span></span></li> <li style="background:white;" ><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" ><span style="font-size:10.5pt;" >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></span></li></ul>
<div style="background:white;" ><br><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" ><span style="font-size:10.5pt;" >To know more about IBM BigFix Compliance SCM checklists, please see</span></span></span></div>
<ul> <li style="background:white;" ><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" ><span style="font-size:10.5pt;" >IBM Developer Works: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/SCM%20Checklists" target="_blank" ><span style="color:#4178be;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" ><span style="font-size:10.5pt;" >https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/SCM%20Checklists</span></span></span></a></li></ul>
<ul> <li style="background:white;" ><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" ><span style="font-size:10.5pt;" >IBM Blog for Checklist Release Announcement: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/groups/service/html/community/updates?communityUuid=a1a33778-88b7-452a-9133-c955812f8910&filter=all" target="_blank" ><span style="color:#4178be;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" ><span style="font-size:10.5pt;" >https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/groups/service/html/community/updates?communityUuid=a1a33778-88b7-452a-9133-c955812f8910&filter=all</span></span></span></a></li></ul>
<ul> <li style="background:white;" ><span style="background:white;" ><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" ><span style="font-size:10.5pt;" >Bigfix forums: <a href="https://forum.bigfix.com/" >https://forum.bigfix.com/</a></span></span></span></span></li></ul>
<div style="background:white;" ><br><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" ><span style="font-size:10.5pt;" >We hope you find this latest release of SCM content useful and effective. Thank you!</span></span></span></div>
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<div style="background:white;" ><em><span style="color:#121212;" ><span style="font-family:helvetica neue;" ><span style="font-size:10.5pt;" > -- The IBM BigFix Compliance team</span></span></span></em></div>
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