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Tag: Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG)

  • ESXi 6.5 STIG Welcome Message

    So the ESXi 6.5 Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) finally released in May 2019. Unfortunately, some of the items I would have liked to see fixed or updated were not. One of the biggest pet peeves is the Annotations.WelcomeMessage advanced setting check. This setting updates the /etc/vmware/welcome file in the filesystem. If the STIG fix…

  • ESXi Ruleset & Firewall Correlation

    Table to correlate VMware Host Profile Firewall Ruleset names to Firewall Names

  • VMware ESXi 6.5 STIG Default File Permissions

    Sorry for the long title, but I wanted it to be descriptive enough to understand and search. So recently, I was testing out the VMware Fling, “DoD Security Technical Implementation Guide(STIG) ESXi VIB” to try to speed up how I secure my hosts. Unfortunately, it changed the default file permissions on my files and I…