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Status Planned for future release
Workspace PowerSC
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 17, 2024

AIX Security reporting tool

Since CIS Tool latest version (v4.x) dropped support for generating AIX security reports based on CIS AIX 7.x benchmark; There is currently NO tool, which would generate decent HTML security reports from AIX systems.


And that is a HUGE gap in security governance on AIX side at the moment.

On Linux side, there is RHEL native Openscap Tool, which is updated all the time on regular basis, and generates awesome reports with remediation scripts / commands included on the found security deviations out-of-the-box.

On AIX side, there is nothing at the moment, only CIS Tool v3.x (which is from year 2020, and out of support) , which generates reports based on CIS AIX 7.1 CIS Benchmark.


Since PowerSC is nowdays "the" Security Tool for AIX systems, please include a Reporting Tool to the program as well.


Br,

tommi


Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Aug 15, 2024
    We are working to get the PowerSC CIS profile certified by the CIS organization and have a little more research to conduct so we can get started with this process.
  • Guest
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    Apr 26, 2024
    Thank you for reaching out IBM.
    PowerSC provides UI based endpoint reporting for CIS AIX 7.2 benchmark, it shows all passed or failed and also the reason for failure.
    PowerSC can also generate PDF report for CIS 7.2 benchmark.
    Can you please provide more details on reporting format or an example that you?re looking for?
  • Guest
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    Apr 22, 2024
    Indeed nothing available for AIX 7.3 And for 7.2 its not complete either