Product Update (PU) July 2012 Release for CCS v11.0

Products

• Control Compliance Suite Databases MS SQL SRVR
• Control Compliance Suite Unix
• Control Compliance Suite Databases Oracle
• Control Compliance Suite Windows

Issue/Introduction

A Maintenance Pack is required to deliver the feature enhancements and fixes for Symantec Control Compliance Suite 11.0

Resolution

PU 2012-1 provides the following feature enhancements and fixes to CCS v11.0: 

Queries: 

·         The CCS user can enable the use of EDI for dashboarding of Ad-hoc results and for incremental import.

·         The CCS User can analyze permissions from local server access with a remote network share perspective.

·         CCS administrator can use different dictionaries for different queries for execution.

·         The CCS User can scope date or time queries to the operator, less or greater than X days/hours/minutes.

 

CCS provides the following updates which are available only after you install SCU 2012-3 or later:

 

·         The CCS User can determine if a specific patch has been installed for Windows assets.

·         The CCS user can ensure integrity of patch files while creating the report on missing or installed patches.

·         CCS Administrator can identify whether latest patch information is available.

·         The CCS User can determine whether all missing patches for Windows assets are available.

·         The CCS user can determine which patches have been installed for Windows assets.

·         The CCS User can select applications and assets, and can retrieve a list of missing applicable patches.

·         The CCS User can limit the depth of the group analysis for effective file permissions.

·         The CCS User can report on groups and users in the results for users datasource.

 

Risk Manager: 

·           In the CCS Risk Manager view Exception Plan button is renamed to Accept Risk Plan.

·           CCS provides the Projected Risk Score calculation at plan level for Evidence based Action Plan Management.

·           CCS provides a configuration setting to manage the number of records to be displayed in the Analyze Risk page for Evidence based Action Plan Management.

 

Policy Manager:

·         CCS provides acceptance Options in Policy Manager.

 

Dashboards: 

·         Remediation Owner can view evidence details for the check or asset evaluation results.

 

Assets:

·         The CCS User can import assets from multiple AD domain using a single CCS Manager.

·         The CCS user can test Directory Server (LDAP) connection for a data location.

·         The CCS user can enable ad-hoc query to identify stale AD Assets and can exclude the Stale AD assets from importing.

 

Miscellaneous:

·         CCS provides Internet Explorer v9.0 browser support in compatibility mode.

·         CCS Administrator can update the CCS Agent with a hotfix using CCS LiveUpdate infrastructure.

 

Documentation updates:

In addition to the above-mentioned enhancements, the following documents are available with CCS 11.0 PU 2012-1:

 

·         Quick Start Guide for Fresh Installation

·         Quick Start Guide for Security Compliance

·         Quick Start Guide for RMS Upgrade

·         Quick Start Guide for ESM Upgrade

·         Quick Start Guide for Policy Compliance

·         Quick Start Guide for Risk Compliance

You may download the Quick Start Guides from Symantec Control Compliance Suite product support website.