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BigFix Compliance</span></p>

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</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)">Updated CIS Checklist
for Windows 2016 with bugfix</span></p>

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</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)">CIS Microsoft Windows
Server 2016 Benchmark with bugfix, V4.0.0.<br>
<br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""></span></p>

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</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CIS Checklist for
Windows 2016 MS, site version 23.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">(The site version is provided for air-gap customers.)</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in;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"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Modified relevance for the
checks below:</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;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" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">●<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant: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:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">(L1) Ensure 'MSS:
(ScreenSaverGracePeriod) The time in seconds before the screen saver grace
period expires' is set to 'Enabled: 5 or fewer seconds' </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in;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" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br>
</span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Published Sites:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CIS Checklist for
Windows 2016 DC, site version 23.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">(The site version is provided for air-gap customers.)</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in;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"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Modified relevance for the
checks below:</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;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" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">●<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant: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:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">(L1) Ensure 'MSS:
(ScreenSaverGracePeriod) The time in seconds before the screen saver grace
period expires' is set to 'Enabled: 5 or fewer seconds' </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border-width:medium;border-style:none;border-color:currentcolor;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols"">●<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant: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:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">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 10 and later.</span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">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.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/compliance/Compliance/SCM_Users_Guide/c_using_synchronize_custom_checks_wiz.html?hl=using%2Csynchronize%2Ccustom%2Cchecks%2Cwizard"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/compliance/Compliance/SCM_Users_Guide/c_using_synchronize_custom_checks_wiz.html?hl=using%2Csynchronize%2Ccustom%2Cchecks%2Cwizard</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""></span></p>

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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" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">BigFix Forum:<br>
</span><span lang="EN" 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%7CBigFix-Scrum-Earth%40hcl.com%7C61ec2d6bab7045a6665a08da698269dc%7C189de737c93a4f5a8b686f4ca9941912%7C0%7C0%7C637938306089268982%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=lZlCjKlTnGZJa3%2Bj3qG%2BCnAoYrbdp3vJhKfbSIBzAk8%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,136,204)">https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/compliance</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""></span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">BigFix Compliance SCM
Checklists:<br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="color:black"><a href="https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbigfix-wiki.hcltechsw.com%2Fwikis%2Fhome%3Flang%3Den-us%23!%2Fwiki%2FBigFix%2520Wiki%2Fpage%2FSCM%2520Checklists&data=05%7C01%7CBigFix-Scrum-Earth%40hcl.com%7C61ec2d6bab7045a6665a08da698269dc%7C189de737c93a4f5a8b686f4ca9941912%7C0%7C0%7C637938306089268982%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=85r4DuoxmRhQGtFLNdDeWVnEczSvEM%2BtlYxQcbAAdCU%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,136,204)">https://bigfix-wiki.hcltechsw.com/wikis/home?lang=en-us#!/wiki/BigFix%20Wiki/page/SCM%20Checklists</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""></span></p>

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latest release of SCM content useful and effective. </span><span lang="EN"></span></p>

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BigFix Compliance team</span></p></div>