CIS Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise Release 1909 Benchmark

Remediation:

To establish the recommended configuration via GP, set the following UI path to Success and Failure :

Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Advanced Audit Policy Configuration\Audit Policies\Account Management\Audit User Account Management

Impact:

If no audit settings are configured, or if audit settings are too lax on the computers in your organization, security incidents might not be detected or not enough evidence will be available for network forensic analysis after security incidents occur. However, if audit settings are too severe, critically important entries in the Security log may be obscured by all of the meaningless entries and computer performance and the available amount of data storage may be seriously affected. Companies that operate in certain regulated industries may have legal obligations to log certain events or activities.

Default Value:

Success.

References:

1. CCE-35499-3

CIS Controls:

Version 6

16.4 Automatically Log Off Users After Standard Period Of Inactivity Regularly monitor the use of all accounts, automatically logging off users after a standard period of inactivity.

Version 7

6.3 Enable Detailed Logging Enable system logging to include detailed information such as an event source, date, user, timestamp, source addresses, destination addresses, and other useful elements.

16.6 Maintain an Inventory of Accounts Maintain an inventory of all accounts organized by authentication system.

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