Symantec CCS SCU 2017-3: New Updates and Significant Enhancements
- Content Updates
As a Compliance Officer, I want to use Security Best Practices Standards and CIS Benchmarks to perform security configuration assessment, policy compliance, and regulatory compliance on various platforms, databases, and applications using CCS 11.x & 12.0.
- New Standards
- CIS Benchmark for Oracle MYSQL Enterprise Edition 5.6 v1.1.0 (On Unix)
- CIS Benchmark for Oracle MYSQL Enterprise Edition 5.7 v1.0.0 (On Unix)
- CIS Benchmark for Microsoft Windows Server 2016 v1.0
- CIS Benchmark for Amazon Linux v2.0.0
- CIS Benchmark for Oracle Linux 7 v2.0.0
- CIS Benchmark for CentOS Linux 7 v2.0.1
- CIS Benchmark for Microsoft IIS 8.0 v1.5.0
- CIS Benchmark for Microsoft IIS 8.5 v1.5.0
- Security Essential Standards in Standard Manager
- Security Essentials for JBOSS EAP 6.3
- Security Essentials for Apple OSX 10.12
- Security Essentials for Kubernetes 1.8
- Security Essentials for Debian Linux 8.x and 9.x
- Security Essentials for Check Point Firewall R80.10
- Security Essentials for Fortinet Fortigate Firewall v5.6
- Security Essentials for Apache Hadoop 2.9
- Security Essentials for AIX 7.2
- Security Essentials for Oracle MySQL Enterprise Edition 5.6 (On Windows)
- Security Essentials for Oracle MySQL Enterprise Edition 5.7 (On Windows)
- Regulator Frameworks/Mandates
- Update to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as per Symantec Legal Guidelines.
- CIS Critical Security Controls for Effective Cyber Defense Ver 6.1 (CIS Top 20 Mandate)
- Oracle agent credential management for Unix platform
- As a IT Operations User, I want the capability to manage Oracle credentials on agent side for Unix platform while scanning CCS Oracle agent bases assets.
- MySQL Platform Support
- As a IT Operations User, I want to the ability to collect data from MySQL 5.6/5.7 databases deployed on Unix/Windows platforms so that I can assess the security configuration.
- Other Changes in SCU 2017-3
- Support for the diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 key exchange algorithm and the hmac-sha2-256 MAC algorithm.
- Support for Superseding patch field in “Installed Software Features”.
- Windows data collection support in Active Directory (AD) environment with Windows 2016 Functional Levels.
- Added Questionnaire to Control Compliance Suite Assessment Manager (CCS AM) corresponding to mandate CIS Critical Security Controls for Effective Cyber Defense Ver 6.1 (CIS Top 20 Mandate) in CCS AM content update.
- Marked following standards as deprecated considering platform reached its extended end of life date from vendors or CCS has new standard corresponding to the latest CIS benchmark version
- Security Essentials for CentOS 7.x
- Security Essentials for Windows 2016
- Security Essentials for Microsoft IIS 8.0 and 8.5
You can visit following link for What’s New in the SCU 2017-3 release
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/CCS/scu/2018.01.30/CCS_12/SCU_2017-3_Release_Notes.pdf
Download Location(s):
SCU 2017-3 is available via Enterprise support site. SCU 2017-3 package is also available via Live Update as well.
SCU 2017-3
https://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/list.jsp?fid=ccs&pvid=scu
SCU for CCS AM 11.x
https://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/list.jsp?fid=ccsam&pvid=ccsam_scu
Agent Download(s)
https://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/list.jsp?fid=ccs&pvid=pgu&year=2017
Security Updates
https://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/list.jsp?fid=ccs