IBM BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on: New PCI DSS Checklist for Ubuntu 16 published 2017-11-21

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Product:
IBM BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on

Title:
New PCI DSS Checklist for Ubuntu 16

Category:
New PCI DSS checklist

Published Benchmark:
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard v3.2

Details:

  • The IBM BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on team is pleased to announce the availability of the new checklist for IBM BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on: PCI DSS Checklist for Ubuntu 16.
  • This new checklist is based on the guidance provided by the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v3.2 and contains security configuration checks that evaluate the security settings of your Ubuntu 16.04 endpoints according to the PCI DSS standard.
  • As with most of the existing PCI DSS contents in the IBM BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on library, this checklist includes checks with:
  • Corresponding analyses properties to report actual values.
  • Standardized titles, descriptions, and measured values for enhanced readability and consistency.
  • The ability to ensure correctness of compliance data.
  • Some of the checks allow you to use the parameterized setting to enable customization for compliance evaluation.
  • Some of the checks also support remediation that allows BigFix operators to efficiently remediate a non-compliance issue with a single action.
  • The following PCI DSS Policies are refreshed with the latest content from the PCI DSS Checklist for Ubuntu 16 site:
  • PCI DSS Checklists
  • PCI DSS Milestones View
  • PCI DSS Requirements View

Published Sites:
PCI DSS Checklist for Ubuntu 16, version 1
PCI DSS Reporting, version 11
*The site version is provided for air-gap customers.

Actions to Take:

  • Ensure that the BigFix client version installed on the Ubuntu 16.04 endpoints is at 9.2 or later.
  • Use the License Overview dashboard from the BES Support site to enable and gather the said site. Note that you must be entitled to the new content and you are using IBM BigFix version 9.2 and later.
  • Create a custom site for the PCI DSS Checklist for Ubuntu 16 site to display the Ubuntu 16 results in the PCI DSS Policy Reports.

More information:
To know more information about the IBM BigFix Compliance PCI DSS checklists, see:

We hope you find this latest release of PCI DSS content useful and effective.

Thank you!

– The IBM BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on team