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Tag: Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG)

  • VMware STIG Tools Appliance

    This post provides an overview of the VMware STIG Tools Appliance and how it supports automated STIG compliance across VMware environments. It explains how auditing, remediation, and reporting workflows work together to produce assessor-ready artifacts while reducing the operational burden of manual STIG implementation.

  • 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