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BigFix Compliance<br>
 <br>
<b>Title:</b><br>
Updated CIS Checklist for Windows 2016 with bugfixes.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:none;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)">Security Benchmark:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:none;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)">CIS Microsoft Windows
Server 2016 Benchmark, V3.0.0.<br>
<br>
<b>Published Sites:</b></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(47,47,47)"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CIS Checklist for
Windows 2016 DC, site version 19.<br>
CIS Checklist for Windows 2016 MS, site version 19.<br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">(The site version is
provided for air-gap customers.)</span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><br>
 <br>
</span><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Details:</span></b></p>

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has been implemented to validate compliance for the following rules:</span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(L1) Ensure 'Network
access: Allow anonymous SID/Name translation' is set to 'Disabled' </span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(L1) Ensure 'Password
must meet complexity requirements' is set to 'Enabled' </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt 1in;line-height:115%;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">c.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(L1) Ensure 'Store
passwords using reversible encryption' is set to 'Disabled' </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;line-height:115%;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">          Note: This task has to be run
periodically.<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">●<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      
</span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Revised
and Improved implementation of all audit-related checks by removing
parameterization.</span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(47,47,47)">To subscribe to the above site, you can use
the License Overview Dashboard to enable and gather the site. Note that you
must be entitled to the BigFix Compliance product, and you must be using BigFix
version 9.5 and later.</span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(47,47,47)">If you use custom sites, update your custom
sites accordingly to use the latest content. You can synchronize your content
by using the Synchronize Custom Checks wizard. For more information, see  </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="color:black"><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/compliance/Compliance/SCM_Users_Guide/c_using_synchronize_custom_checks_wiz.html"><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue">https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/compliance/Compliance/SCM_Users_Guide/c_using_synchronize_custom_checks_wiz.html</span></a></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(47,47,47)"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:none;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">More information:</span></b></p>

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</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">To know more about the
BigFix Compliance SCM checklists, please see the following resources:</span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">BigFix Forum:<br>
</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="color:black"><a href="https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforum.bigfix.com%2Fc%2Frelease-announcements%2Fcompliance&data=05%7C01%7Csaidinesh.ck%40hcl.com%7C561d74c2a9f0479ecd2408da2c379e3c%7C189de737c93a4f5a8b686f4ca9941912%7C0%7C0%7C637870914637851936%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=IlvU%2B2%2F7%2BEz01WDp19RmD7qYHmab2xdYmNAc1vjsXjM%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue">https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/compliance</span></a></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">BigFix Compliance SCM Checklists:<br>
</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="color:black"><a href="https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbigfix-wiki.hcltechsw.com%2Fwikis%2Fhome%3Flang%3Denus%23!%2Fwiki%2FBigFix%2520Wiki%2Fpage%2FSCM%2520Checklists&data=05%7C01%7Csaidinesh.ck%40hcl.com%7C561d74c2a9f0479ecd2408da2c379e3c%7C189de737c93a4f5a8b686f4ca9941912%7C0%7C0%7C637870914637851936%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Lcyek%2B9QGqUIZijVyE81pxZ%2FomguHhtFlFe440xwEUA%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue">https://bigfix-wiki.hcltechsw.com/wikis/home?lang=enus#!/wiki/BigFix%20Wiki/page/SCM%20Checklists</span></a></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:none;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)">We hope you find this
latest release of SCM content useful and effective. Thank you!<br>
 <br>
<i> -- The BigFix Compliance team.</i></span></p></div>