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BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation (IVR)
Welcome to the BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation (IVR) documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain and use IVR service.
BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation (IVR)
Welcome to the BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation (IVR) documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain and use IVR service.
BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation
Use this section to become familiar with BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation infrastructure and key concepts necessary to understand how it works.

BigFix Documentation Homepage
Platform Documentation
Patch Documentation
Insights Documentation
The Insights feature of BigFix 10 provides you with advanced analytics and visualizations that you can use to identify risks in your environment and make appropriate business decisions.
CVE Search dashboard and Web Report
BigFix CVE Search dashboard and Web Report are available as part of a new Vulnerability Reporting site.
CyberFOCUS Analytics dashboard
From the BigFix CyberFOCUS Analytics dashboard, you can view various reports that display critical information related to vulnerabilities. The data are represented in the form of graphs and tables, so that the user can quickly become aware of the IT assets and the threats in the environment and take informed decisions to mitigate vulnerabilities.
ServiceNow Data Flow
This module provides an overview and features of BigFix ServiceNow Data Flow.
BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation (IVR)
Welcome to the BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation (IVR) documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain and use IVR service.
- BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation (IVR) v.4
  This module provides comprehensive guidance on the installation, maintenance, and operation of the IVR v.4 service. It includes a detailed summary of the entire end-to-end workflow for using IVR v.4.
- BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation (IVR)
  Welcome to the BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation (IVR) documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain and use IVR service.
  - BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation
    Use this section to become familiar with BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation infrastructure and key concepts necessary to understand how it works.
  - System requirements
    Learn more about the prerequisites and system requirements for BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation (IVR) service.
  - Deployment and configuration
    This module provides the steps to deploy and configure the BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation solution for:
  - Setting up IVR App
    Use this module to install and set up your WebUI IVR app.
  - Scheduling IVR ETL
    The Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process pulls data from a datasource and stores it in the IVR database. An ETL process consumes significant time and resources and hence must be performed on a customized schedule to minimize disruption. In IVR, you can schedule an ETL daily, weekly, or monthly.
  - IVR Fixlets and Tasks
    Learn more about available Fixlets and Tasks for BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation.
  - Updating and validating the IVR configuration file
    You can update and validate the IVR configuration.
  - Updating IVR credentials
    You can update the IVR credentials.
  - Business Intelligence reports
    Use this section to become familiar with Power BI and Tableau reports.
  - Reference
    The following topics contain information on how you can work with the configuration file and settings, the CLI that comes with the package. They also describe how to use the log files for troubleshooting purposes.
  - Release Notes
    The release notes outline the features, updates and patches that are included in each version of BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation, including the latest application updates.
Extended third-party Windows Applications
Updates for Windows Applications Extended provides an automated, standardized process of managing software updates and packages in the BigFix environment. This provides updates for a wide range of third-party software packages.
Extended third-party Mac Applications
Updates for Mac Applications Extended provides an automated, standardized process of managing software updates and packages in the BigFix environment. This provides updates for a wide range of third-party software packages.
Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Content Pack (Add-on)
Remediate Guides in PDF
Following is a link to the BigFix Remediate user guide in PDF format:

BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation

Use this section to become familiar with BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation infrastructure and key concepts necessary to understand how it works.

BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation integrates BigFix with sources of vulnerability data. The purpose is to guide BigFix users on how to apply the best patch and configuration settings to remediate discovered vulnerabilities, and thus reduce risk and improve security.

BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation, uses advanced correlation algorithms to aggregate and process the vulnerability data with information from BigFix to drive analytics reports. The output of the analytics facilitates remediation through the Baseline Creation Wizard by recommending the latest available patches for the discovered vulnerabilities.

Figure 1. Architecture overview of BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation.

Audience and purpose

This implementation guide is targeted at BigFix Administrators. It provides all necessary information required to install and configure the BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation solution and work with the various features it offers.