New CIS VMware ESXi 6.7 Benchmark v1.0.0

Summary

Customers with ESXi 6.7 can now examine their installation's compliance with Tenable's audit files based on the CIS VMware ESXi 6.7 benchmark. This audit has been certified through CIS and can be viewed along with Tenable's other certified products at https://www.cisecurity.org/partner/tenable/. 

CIS Benchmarks

• CIS VMware ESXi 6.7 Benchmark v1.0.0

Target Release Date

13 Aug 2019

Additional Notes:

This audit set now includes a "Bare Metal" audit, which is used with SSH to the ESXi host to verify base OS configuration settings that are not viewable through the API. For a complete CIS "Level 1" report, both "CIS_VMware_ESXi_6.7_v1.0.0_L1.audit" and "CIS_VMware_ESXi_6.7_v1.0.0_L1_Bare_Metal.audit" must be used. The same applies to Level 2.

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