The BigFix Team is pleased to announce the release of BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation (IVR) version 2.0!
BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation automates elements of the vulnerability remediation process to:
- Align Security and Operations teams with intelligent automation
- Significantly compress the time from vulnerability assessment to vulnerability remediation
- Greatly reduce risk by reducing your attack surface
The main features of this release include:
A New WebUI Application
BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation v2 introduces a new WebUI application to better enable the BigFix Operator to remediate vulnerabilities more quickly and easily! You can now view the correlated vulnerability data directly within WebUI, enabling simple, yet powerful, prioritized deployment workflows. You can quickly narrow down discovered vulnerabilities to those that matter most, select them for remediation, and click ‘Deploy’.
Additional information about this release
- The IVR v2.0 release is comprised of 2 main elements:
- A new IVR App in WebUI: to display correlated vulnerability data and enable quick/simple remediation workflows
- For information on setting up BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation, please see Setting up IVR App
- For information on using the new IVR App, please see Get started with IVR
- IVR Service v1.4: to synchronize discovered vulnerability data with supported Vulnerability Management products.
- For information on deploying and configuring the IVR Service v1.4, please see Deployment and configuration
- A new IVR App in WebUI: to display correlated vulnerability data and enable quick/simple remediation workflows
- Pre-requisites:
- Licensing requirements: BigFix Lifecycle, or BigFix Compliance
Considerations/Known issues:
- The IVR Application in WebUI (from the Apps menu) will display only after a page refresh once access is successfully granted and configured. This process can take a few minutes. Please see Setting up IVR App for more details.
- Deployments with many concurrent WebUI users (> 30) may see a temporary build-up in memory usage associated with the IVR application. Please see WebUI IVR Settings for more information, including a configurable setting to limit memory usage (
_WebUIAppEnv_IVR_MEM_THRESHOLD
).
Site versions:
Site Type | Name | Version |
---|---|---|
Fixlet Site | BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation | 10 |
WebUI Site | WebUI Insights | 11 |
WebUI Site | WebUI IVR | 1 |
WebUI Site | WebUI Common | 71 |
WebUI Site | WebUI Framework | 19 |
Additional references
- Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ8rqCPoAGw
- Documentation: BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation
- Learn more on our Product Page: https://www.hcltechsw.com/products/bigfix/ivr-home