The IBM BigFix Compliance development team invites you to take part in the beta program for the IBM BigFix Compliance Payment Card Industry (PCI) Add-on.
This beta program is a way for you to follow along as new PCI DSS checklists for the Security BigFix Compliance product are developed. You will be able to validate new product enhancements that could be of value to you and influence the development team to improve the PCI DSS checks and checklists to meet your needs.
We can schedule live demonstrations of the new functionalities that are currently being developed where you can provide immediate feedback.
Your feedback can influence the ongoing development of this product. Your participation will be crucial to how we can improve our content and will be very much appreciated.
How to enroll or where to get more information
Feel free to post questions and topics related to this beta program in this forum, or contact Malgorzata Jablonska at malgorzata.jablonska@pl.ibm.com for more information.
To learn more about the BigFix Compliance and PCI, visit the IBM BigFix devWorks wiki at https://ibm.biz/BdHmnJ.
Thank you for your time. Please feel free to contact us with any questions.
Best Regards, IBM BigFix Compliance Development Team
What’s the latest on the IBM BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on Beta Program (as of 2016-07-22)
The IBM BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on Beta Program aims to provide registered beta customers with the latest content that is available in the IBM BigFix Compliance product.
The following beta sites for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) have been updated to ensure that the new PCI DSS checklist and enhancements on existing checklists bring value to our beta customers.
PCI DSS Checklist for RHEL 5 Beta, site version 8
PCI DSS Checklist for RHEL 6 Beta, site version 5
PCI DSS Checklist for RHEL 7 Beta, site version 5
PCI DSS Checklist for AIX 7 Beta, site version 2
PCI DSS Checklist for Windows 2008 Beta, site version 21
PCI DSS Checklist for Windows 2012 Beta, site version 10
PCI DSS Checklist for Windows 7 Beta, site version 33
With the continuous feedback, our beta customers are able to influence the development team to improve the PCI DSS checks and checklists to meet their needs.
Here are some highlights from this beta update:
Support for PCI DSS Requirements and Security Assessment Procedures v3.2. Existing checks are updated to adopt to the new standard and new checks are added to conform to the new requirements.
New checklist for AIX that includes coverage for AIX 7.1.
Automatic remediation function in all RHEL checklists.
Improved performance for selected checks in the Windows checklists.
“Verify that Administrator account is renamed on the system” (pcidss-2.1.b_1)
“Verify that Guest account is renamed on the system” (pcidss-2.1.b_2)
“Verify that Administrator account on the system is set to Disabled” (pcidss-2.1.b_3)
“Verify that Guest account on the system is set to Disabled” (pcidss-2.1.b_4)
Enhanced reporting presentation and readability of Measured values and Desired values in various checklists.
Titles and descriptions of the checks are updated with the standardized format and extensions.
We encourage you to take part in the IBM BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on Beta Program now!
Your participation and feedback are valuable to the team. We hope to work with you on the ongoing development of this product as we continually aim to improve our content.
Actions to take (for registered beta customers):
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://ibm.biz/Bd4LBt.
More information:
To learn more about IBM BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on, see: