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BigFix Compliance</span></p>

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Updated CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 with bug fixes.</span></p>

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Benchmark:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><br>
CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Benchmark, v2.0.0</span></p>

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Sites:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><br>
CIS Checklist for RHEL 9, site version 9<br>
(The site version is provided for air-gap customers.)</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Fixed and Improved
implementation and added more remediation support for the following check:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""></span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(23,43,77);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Ensure sshd MaxAuthTries is configured </span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(23,43,77);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Ensure sshd MaxSessions is configured </span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(23,43,77);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Ensure sshd MaxStartups is configured </span></p>

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to take:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""></span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;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
BigFix Compliance product, and you must be using BigFix version 9.5 and later.</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">If you use custom sites, update your custom sites accordingly to
use the latest content. You can synchronize your content by using the
Synchronize Custom Checks wizard. For more information, see </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/compliance/Compliance/SCM_Users_Guide/c_using_synchronize_custom_checks_wiz.html"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/compliance/Compliance/SCM_Users_Guide/c_using_synchronize_custom_checks_wiz.html</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""></span></p>

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information:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><br>
To know more about the BigFix Compliance SCM checklists, please see the
following resources:</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">BigFix Forum:<br>
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforum.bigfix.com%2Fc%2Frelease-announcements%2Fcompliance&data=05%7C01%7Cshriramesachin.gulab%40hcl.com%7C2b59734ab3654b24a3df08da878aeeb2%7C189de737c93a4f5a8b686f4ca9941912%7C0%7C0%7C637971328022321782%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=CQa%2BUBoJrw0jslqt2bcCb2s8i%2FOKQVBNygBQO7Ng5Ww%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,136,204)">https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/compliance</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""></span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">BigFix Compliance SCM Checklists:<br>
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbigfix-wiki.hcltechsw.com%2Fwikis%2Fhome%3Flang%3Den-us%23!%2Fwiki%2FBigFix%2520Wiki%2Fpage%2FSCM%2520Checklists&data=05%7C01%7Cshriramesachin.gulab%40hcl.com%7C2b59734ab3654b24a3df08da878aeeb2%7C189de737c93a4f5a8b686f4ca9941912%7C0%7C0%7C637971328022321782%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=x%2B9t3rlKps7OzLv18SuNq2ijBJSn%2BmpePWGUUVPb6nU%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,136,204)">https://bigfix-wiki.hcltechsw.com/wikis/home?lang=en-us#!/wiki/BigFix%20Wiki/page/SCM%20Checklists</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""></span></p>

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effective. Thank you!</span></p>

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