<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 14pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Product:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br>
BigFix Compliance</span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Metadata
Standardization for SCM DISA Linux Checklists.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">At BigFix, we continuously invest in improving the
consistency, accuracy, and reliability of compliance content. As part of this
effort, we have standardized the metadata for DISA Linux checklists, ensuring
correct source IDs, severity, and category for more consistent compliance
assessment and easier content management.</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We’ve
updated the metadata for DISA Linux checklist Fixlets to ensure accurate source
IDs, severity, and category</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols""></span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">These
changes do not affect Fixlets logic, remediations or compliance results. Only
the displayed metadata has been improved for clarity and consistency in
reporting.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">What’s Covered</span></b><span lang="EN" style="color:black"><br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The above changes are applied to
the following SCM checklists:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">1</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">DISA
STIG Checklist for Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 LTS</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">DISA
STIG Checklist for RHEL 7</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Actions to take:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">●<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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 10 and later.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 14pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">●<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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 lang="EN" style="color:black"><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/compliance/Compliance/SCM_Users_Guide/c_using_synchronize_custom_checks_wiz.html"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:blue">https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/compliance/Compliance/SCM_Users_Guide/c_using_synchronize_custom_checks_wiz.html</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in 14pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Note: </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The
Applicability Fixlet is not synchronized by the <i>Synchronize Custom Checks</i>
wizard. Please create a custom copy of the Fixlet from the external site into
your custom site and remove the existing version<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">More information:<br>
</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">To know more about the BigFix
Compliance SCM checklists, please see the following resources:</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">BigFix
Forum:<br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="color:black"><a href="https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/compliance"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:blue">https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/compliance</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">BigFix
Compliance SCM Checklists:<br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="color:black"><a href="https://bigfix-wiki.hcltechsw.com/wikis/home?lang=en-us#!/wiki/BigFix%20Wiki/page/SCM%20Checklists"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:blue">https://bigfix-wiki.hcltechsw.com/wikis/home?lang=en-us#!/wiki/BigFix%20Wiki/page/SCM%20Checklists</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We hope you find this latest release of SCM content
useful and effective. Thank you!</span></p>
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<i>– The BigFix Compliance team</i></span></p></div>