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To skip a check, the benchmark you are running must be tailored/customized.

To customize a benchmark follow the steps below:

1.) Find a CIS published benchmark within WorkBench. Either using the "Benchmarks" navigation link or within a given community.

2.) Click the Fork button in the top menu bar.

3.) A modal will appear asking if you would like to customize the benchmark metadata before forking. This can easily be done after the fork completes as well.

• Choosing customize will display the edit benchmark form, once submitted successfully, you'll be redirected to the forked benchmark.

• Choosing just fork will take you to the forked benchmark.

4.) Depending on the size of the Benchmark, the resulting page may have a progress bar indicating the progress of the background job that is creating the fork. Once complete it will refresh the page on your new forked Benchmark.

5.) In the left frame select the recommendation you want to skip

• Click Edit in the top menu

• Change the Assessment Status option from Automated to Manual

• Click Submit

6.) To run the Tailored Benchmark assessment in CIS-CAT Pro Assessor;

• Click on Export in the top menu

• Select XCCDF + OVAL

• Download and unzip the files to you CIS-CAT Assessor Benchmarks folder

• Run the assessment

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