<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Product:<br>
</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">BigFix
Compliance</span></p>

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</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">New
CIS Checklist for Windows 2025 </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)">with bugfixes.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Security
Benchmark:<br>
</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">CIS
Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Benchmark, V1.0.0</span></p>

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Sites:<br>
</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">CIS
Checklist for Windows 2025 MS, site version 2.<br>
(The site version is provided for air-gap customers.)</span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">(L2)
Ensure 'Allow Print Spooler to accept client connections' is set to
'Disabled   - checks have been modified
from L1 to L2. <b>(in CIS Checklist for
Windows Server 2025 MS)</b></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></p>

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take:</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in 0.0001pt 50pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">●<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" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">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 11.0.3 and later.</span><span lang="EN"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt 50pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">●<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" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">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" 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:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration-line:none">Using the Synchronize Custom Checks wizard</span></a></span><span lang="EN"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">More
information:</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">To know more about the BigFix Compliance SCM
checklists, please see the following resources:</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in 0.0001pt 50pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">●<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" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">BigFix Forum:<br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="color:black"><a href="https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/compliance"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration-line:none">https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/compliance</span></a></span><span lang="EN"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt 50pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">●<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" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">BigFix Compliance SCM Checklists:<br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="color:black"><a href="https://bigfix-wiki.hcltechsw.com/wikis/home?lang=enus#!/wiki/BigFix%20Wiki/page/SCM%20Checklists"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration-line:none">Welcome to Wikis</span></a></span><span lang="EN"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">We hope you find this latest release of SCM
content useful and effective. Thank you!</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">– The BigFix
Compliance team.</span></i></p></div>