How to find the OS version for risk assessment policies?

In this topic, you will learn how to find the operating system version for risk assessment policies on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS devices.

Microsoft Windows

  1. Open the Windows Registry Editor

    For example, click on the  🔍  icon next to your start menu icon and type: regedit. Then, select the Registry Editor icon in the start menu.

  2. Find the following key: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ and copy the CurrentBuildNumber value.

    For example, 19045.

  3. In Portnox Cloud, in the Major field, select your major Windows or Windows Server version.
  4. In the Build number field, enter the value you copied from the registry.

    For example, 19045.

Note:
You can also use the Wikipedia list of Windows versions web page to correlate Windows build numbers with Windows releases.

macOS

  1. Open your System Preferences app.
  2. Click on the Software Update icon.
  3. Note down the version mentioned in the sentence on top of the window.

    For example, 12.7.6.

Linux

  1. Open your Linux terminal.
  2. Enter the following command: 
    awk -F= '/^VERSION_ID=/{gsub(/"/,"",$2); print $2}' /etc/os-release
  3. Note down the displayed value.

    For example, 26.04.

Important:
If you use different distributions such as Ubuntu and RHEL, the version numbers will be incompatible with one another. In such cases, you must create separate groups and risk assessment policies and put machines with different distributions in separate groups with those separate policies assigned. For distributions that do not have version numbers, such as Arch Linux, Gentoo, and NixOS (unstable channel), there is no way to create a risk attribute based on a version number.

Android

  1. Open the Settings app.

    Pull from the top of the screen, and then tap on the  ⚙  icon.

  2. Navigate to About device > Version.
  3. Note the value of the Android version field.

    For example, 15.

Note:
The exact path to the version information may be different in custom versions of Android.

iOS

  1. Open the Settings app.
  2. Tap on General, and then on About.
  3. Note the value of the iOS Version field.

    For example, 17.0.2.