diff --git a/cmd/root.go b/cmd/root.go
index bae9dba..9eaba54 100644
--- a/cmd/root.go
+++ b/cmd/root.go
@@ -41,13 +41,8 @@ var (
 // RootCmd represents the base command when called without any subcommands
 var RootCmd = &cobra.Command{
 	Use:   "cis_kubernetes",
-	Short: "A brief description of your application",
-	Long: `A longer description that spans multiple lines and likely contains
-examples and usage of using your application. For example:
-
-Cobra is a CLI library for Go that empowers applications.
-This application is a tool to generate the needed files
-to quickly create a Cobra application.`,
+	Short: "Run CIS Benchmarks checks against a Kubernetes deployment",
+	Long:  `This tool runs the CIS Kubernetes 1.6 Benchmark v1.0.0 checks.`,
 }
 
 // Execute adds all child commands to the root command sets flags appropriately.