<font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">As you continue to monitor
and manage your endpoints to ensure a secure and PCI compliant environment
for 2017, we’d like to wish you a very wonderful new year!</font><br><br><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">To reinforce our team’s
commitment to help you meet your PCI compliance objectives, we would like
to take you on a quick journey back to the IBM BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on
releases and enhancements that IBM has delivered in 2016.</font><br><ul><li><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">Up-to-date benchmark support<br>The PCI Security Standards Council published the new PCI DSS Requirements
and Security Assessment Procedures v3.2 in 2016, and all the BigFix PCI
checklists have been upgraded to support the new PCI DSS version.</font></ul><ul><li><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">New PCI DSS compliance
reporting<br>The new PCI DSS Policy reporting, which is available in BigFix Compliance
Analytics V1.9, identifies the level of compliance for each system within
an entire organization based on a specific PCI DSS Requirement or PCI DSS
Milestone. It provides a new PCI Reporting site to easily enable the creation
of Requirement or Milestone based reports. For more information, see the
official announcement at </font><a href=https://ibm.biz/Bdspcq><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif">https://ibm.biz/Bdspcq</font></a><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">.</font></ul><ul><li><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">Broader platform coverage<br>In addition to the existing supported platform coverage, BigFix Compliance
PCI Add-on expanded its support coverage to include the following operating
systems:</font><ul><li><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">Windows 10</font><li><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">AIX 6.1</font><li><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">AIX 7.1</font><li><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">CentOS 6</font><li><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">CentOS 7</font></ul><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">For
the complete support list, see </font><a href=https://ibm.biz/BdsemD><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif">https://ibm.biz/BdsemD</font></a><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">.</font></ul><ul><li><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">Remediation actions <br>BigFix operators can take remediation actions, in addition to compliance
monitoring, for the following operating systems to efficiently remediate
a non-compliance issue with a single action:</font><ul><li><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">Windows SQL Server 2008</font><li><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">Windows SQL Server 2012</font><li><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">Windows 7</font><li><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">Windows 10</font><li><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">Windows Embedded POSReady
7</font><li><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">Windows Embedded Standard
7</font><li><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">RHEL 5</font><li><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">RHEL 6</font><li><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">RHEL 7</font><li><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">AIX 7.1</font><li><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">CentOS 6</font><li><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">CentOS 7</font></ul><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">To
find more information about the IBM BigFix Compliance PCI DSS checklists,
see the BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on wiki at </font><a href=https://ibm.biz/BdrBtk><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif">https://ibm.biz/BdrBtk</font></a><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">.</font></ul><br><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">Note that all BigFix Compliance
PCI release announcements are posted in the BigFix forum at </font><a href=https://ibm.biz/Bdsspw><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif">https://ibm.biz/Bdsspw</font></a><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">.</font><br><br><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">Let us know how we can
further improve our product to better help you meet your goals for 2017.
You can either e-mail <b>I-Lung Kao</b>, BigFix Compliance PCI product
manager, at <i>ikao@us.ibm.com</i>, or post a forum topic on </font><a href=https://forum.bigfix.com/><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif">https://forum.bigfix.com</font></a><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">.</font><br><br><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif">Looking forward to more
journeys ahead! Thank you very much for the support.</font><br><br><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif"><i>-- The IBM BigFix Compliance
PCI Add-on team</i></font><br><BR>