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Managing Audit Waivers How waiver requests and grants work 1 Click Menu | Risk & Compliance | Waivers. 2 Select the group containing the waivers from the System Tree. 3 From the Filter drop-down list, select This Group Only. The waivers tab shows only the waivers for systems in the selected group. 4 Select This Group and all Subgroups from the Filter drop-down list. The Waivers tab shows waivers for systems in the selected group and any subgroups of the selected group. How waiver requests and grants work McAfee Policy Auditor software shows waivers on the Waivers page when a user with the proper permissions grants approval for the waiver to take effect. Depending upon the internal security policies of your organization, the users who request waivers and the users who grant them can be different. A user who has permissions to request and grant waivers can create a waiver and grant it at the same time. Requesting waivers McAfee Policy Auditor software allows you to request a waiver. If a user only has permissions to request waivers, another user who has permissions to grant waivers must grant the waiver before it appears on the Waivers page. If you have the correct permissions to grant waivers, you can create and grant the waiver in a single step. Requested waivers appear in the Issues Catalog. Before you begin You must have permissions to request waivers. Task For option definitions, click ? in the interface. 1 Click Menu | Risk & Compliance | Waivers, then click New Waiver. The Waiver Request page appears. 2 Type a name for the waiver. In the Notes box, type descriptive information that you want to associate with the waiver. 3 From the Waiver Type drop-down list, select the type of waiver that you want to create. 4 Use one or both of these options to select systems to apply the waiver to: • Click Add Systems. The Quick System Search dialog box appears. Type the system name, IP address, MAC address, or user name that you want to search for. If you do not know the full name or address, you can type a partial search, like 172.21. Click OK. The Search Results page appears. • Click Add Group. The Select Tree Group dialog box appears. Select a group from the System Tree and click OK. Repeat as needed. 5 Select the systems that the waiver applies to, then click OK. The Waiver Request page appears. • For exception and suppression waivers, select a benchmark and one or more rules. • Exemption waivers do not require a benchmark and a rule. 56 McAfee Policy Auditor 6.0 software Product Guide for ePolicy Orchestrator 4.6

Section	Page
Contents	3
Introducing McAfee Policy Auditor	8
Audience	8
Conventions	8
Finding product documentation	9
Getting started with McAfee Policy Auditor	10
Introduction to compliance audits	10
Auditing systems	11
What's new	11
Software components and what they do	12
Use of ePolicy Orchestrator software features	13
Managed systems vs. unmanaged systems	14
Configuring McAfee Policy Auditor	16
Server settings and what they control	16
Edit McAfee Policy Auditor server settings	18
How permission sets work	18
Default permission sets	19
Edit permission sets	21
Using the McAfee Policy Auditor agent plug-in	22
The agent plug-in and how it works	22
Supported platforms	22
How content is managed	24
Install and uninstall the agent plug-in	24
Install the McAfee Policy Auditor agent plug-in	24
Uninstall the agent plug-in	25
Send a manual wake-up call to a group of systems	25
Display the system tray icon on Windows systems	26
Configuring agentless audits	27
How McAfee Policy Auditor integrates with the McAfee Vulnerability Manager extension	27
Uniform system management	27
McAfee Vulnerability Manager extension integration with scannable systems	28
Asset Discovery scans	28
Data collection scans	28
The Maintain Foundstone Audits server task	28
The Data Import server task	29
Server support	29
Configure McAfee Vulnerability Manager and the ePolicy Orchestrator extension	29
Create a McAfee Vulnerability Manager workgroup	30
Configure the McAfee Vulnerability Manager single sign-on feature	30
Create a data source to synchronize McAfee Vulnerability Manager and ePolicy Orchestrator	31
Register a McAfee Vulnerability Manager database server with McAfee Policy Auditor	32
Manage McAfee Vulnerability Manager credential sets	33
Create an Asset Discovery scan	33
Create an MVM Data Import task	34
Add systems found by McAfee Vulnerability Manager scans to the System Tree	35
Create a Data Collection Scan	35
View McAfee Vulnerability Manager scan status	36
How to handle missing audit results	36
Troubleshoot missing audit results	37
How to handle mismatched McAfee Vulnerability Manager certificates	37
Troubleshoot mismatched McAfee Vulnerability Manager certificates	38
Creating and managing audits	39
Audits and how they work	39
Audit frequency	40
When audits are run	40
Per audit data maintenance	40
Benchmark profiles and their effect on audits	41
Considerations for including systems in an audit	41
Benchmark labels and how they are used	41
Findings	42
Agentless audits	42
Activate benchmarks	42
Create an audit	43
Run an audit manually	43
Disable an audit	44
Delete audits	44
Audit whiteout and blackout periods	44
Set whiteout and blackout periods	44
Service Level Agreements	45
Create, edit, and delete Service Level Agreements	45
How viewing audit results works	46
Exporting audits and audit results	47
Export audits	47
Scoring Audits	49
Default scoring model	49
Flat unweighted scoring model	50
Flat scoring model	50
Absolute scoring model	51
Changing the scoring model	51
Managing Audit Waivers	52
Types of waivers	52
Exception waivers	53
Exemption waivers	53
Suppression waivers	53
Waiver status	54
Filtering waivers by status	54
How start and expiration dates work	54
Examples of filtering waivers by date	54
Filtering waivers by date	55
Filtering waivers by group	55
How waiver requests and grants work	56
Requesting waivers	56
Granting waivers	57
Making waivers expire	57
Deleting waivers	57
File Integrity Monitoring and entitlement reporting	59
How file integrity monitoring works	59
File information monitored	60
File baselines	60
Monitored and excluded files	60
File versioning	61
File version comparison	62
Accept file integrity monitoring events	62
Purge file integrity monitoring events	62
Entitlement reporting	62
Create and apply a file integrity monitoring policy	63
Create a file integrity monitoring policy	63
Apply a policy to systems	65
Compare file versions	65
Accept file integrity monitoring events	66
Purge file integrity monitoring events	66
Create a new file integrity monitoring baseline	67
Query reports for file integrity monitoring	67
Rollup reporting	68
Rollup capabilities	68
Rollup reporting considerations	68
Rollup server tasks	69
Rollup Data - PA: Audit Benchmark Results	69
Rollup Data - PA: Audit Rule Result	70
Rollup Data - PA: Audit Patch Check Result	71
Rollup reports	71
Configure rollup reporting	72
Findings	74
How findings work	74
Types of violations	74
Violation limit	75
Other Findings enhancements	75
Hide or unhide Findings results	75
Dashboards and Queries	77
Policy Auditor default dashboards	77
PA: Compliance Summary dashboard	80
PA: MS Patch Status Summary dashboard	80
PA: Operations	80
PA: PCI Summary	81
Queries as dashboard monitors	82
Policy Auditor agent plug-in debug tool	83
Execute the agent plug-in debug tool	83
Display help	84
Run an audit	84
Run a benchmark	85
Run a check	85
Save debug information	86
Appendix A: Implementing the Security Content Automation Protocol	87
Statement of FDCC compliance	87
Statement of SCAP implementation	88
Statement of CVE implementation	88
Statement of CCE implementation	89
Statement of CPE implementation	89
Statement of CVSS implementation	90
Statement of XCCDF implementation	90
Statement of OVAL implementation	90
Appendix B: Common Criteria requirements	92

Match case Limit results 1 per page

Click

Menu | Risk & Compliance | Waivers

Select the group containing the waivers from the System Tree.

From the

Filter

drop-down list, select

This Group Only

. The waivers tab shows only the

waivers for systems in the selected group.

Select

This Group and all Subgroups

from the

Filter

drop-down list.

The Waivers tab shows waivers for systems in the selected group and any subgroups of the

selected group.

How waiver requests and grants work

McAfee Policy Auditor software shows waivers on the Waivers page when a user with the proper

permissions grants approval for the waiver to take effect.

Depending upon the internal security policies of your organization, the users who request waivers

and the users who grant them can be different. A user who has permissions to request and

grant waivers can create a waiver and grant it at the same time.

Requesting waivers

McAfee Policy Auditor software allows you to request a waiver. If a user only has permissions

to request waivers, another user who has permissions to grant waivers must grant the waiver

before it appears on the Waivers page. If you have the correct permissions to grant waivers,

you can create and grant the waiver in a single step.

Requested waivers appear in the Issues Catalog.

Before you begin

You must have permissions to request waivers.

Task

For option definitions, click

in the interface.

Click

Menu | Risk & Compliance | Waivers

, then click

New Waiver

. The Waiver Request

page appears.

Type a name for the waiver. In the

Notes

box, type descriptive information that you want

to associate with the waiver.

From the

Waiver Type

drop-down list, select the type of waiver that you want to create.

Use one or both of these options to select systems to apply the waiver to:

•

Click

Add Systems

.The Quick System Search dialog box appears.Type the system

name, IP address, MAC address, or user name that you want to search for. If you do

not know the full name or address, you can type a partial search, like 172.21. Click

The Search Results page appears.

•

Click

Add Group

.The Select Tree Group dialog box appears. Select a group from the

System Tree and click

. Repeat as needed.

Select the systems that the waiver applies to, then click

. The Waiver Request page

appears.

•

For exception and suppression waivers, select a benchmark and one or more rules.

•

Exemption waivers do not require a benchmark and a rule.

Managing Audit Waivers

How waiver requests and grants work

McAfee Policy Auditor 6.0 software Product Guide for ePolicy Orchestrator 4.6