BigFix Compliance: Updated CIS Checklists for CentOS Linux 6 and RHEL 6, published 2020-10-01

Product:
BigFix Compliance

Title:
Updated CIS Checklists for CentOS Linux 6 and RHEL 6 with bug fix.

Security Benchmarks:
CIS CentOS Linux 6 Benchmark, v2.1.0
CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Benchmark, v2.1.0

Published Sites:
CIS checklist for CentOS Linux 6, site version 19
CIS Checklist for RHEL 6, site version 35
(The site version is provided for air-gap customers.)

Details:
Fixed and improved implementation for the following checks:

  • Ensure default user umask is 027 or more restrictive

Actions to take:
• 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 9.2 and later.
• 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 https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/9.5/compliance/Compliance/SCM_Users_Guide/c_using_synchronize_custom_checks_wiz.html.

More information:
To know more about the BigFix Compliance SCM checklists, please see the following resources:

BigFix Forum:
https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/compliance

BigFix Compliance SCM Checklists:
https://bigfix-wiki.hcltechsw.com/wikis/home?lang=en-us#!/wiki/BigFix%20Wiki/page/SCM%20Checklists

We hope you find this latest release of SCM content useful and effective. Thank you!
– The BigFix Compliance team