diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 668470e..bae896e 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Or you can simply run the shell script locally:
 ```sh
 git clone git@github.com:docker/docker-bench-security.git
 cd docker-bench-security
-sh docker-bench-security.sh
+sudo sh docker-bench-security.sh
 ```
 
 The Docker Bench has the main script called `docker-bench-security.sh`.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a16fe2f..1984f0f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Also, this script can also be simply run from your base host by running:
 ```sh
 git clone https://github.com/docker/docker-bench-security.git
 cd docker-bench-security
-sh docker-bench-security.sh
+sudo sh docker-bench-security.sh
 ```
 
 This script was build to be POSIX 2004 compliant, so it should be portable