Reporting and Remediation of Security Vulnerabilities

Posted by Nick Anderson
September 30, 2014

With the slew of recent security issues like Supermarket Point of Sale Compromises not once but twice, other large retailer card breaches, the famed Heartbleed vulnerability and others in the news. We want to share an example of how CFEngine can be used to quickly identify and remediate affected systems. In our documentation please find the “Reporting and Remediation of Security Vulnerabilities” tutorial. The tutorial walks through policy to both identify and remediate the recent #shellshock exploit. For those using CFEngine Enterprise there is guidance on creating dashboard alerts and inventory reports included.