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Auditing of Backup and Restore Privileges must be turned off.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
WN12-SO-000008 WN12-SO-000008 WN12-SO-000008_rule Medium
Description
Maintaining an audit trail of system activity logs can help identify configuration errors, troubleshoot service disruptions, and analyze compromises that have occurred, as well as detect attacks. Audit logs are necessary to provide a trail of evidence in case the system or network is compromised. Collecting this data is essential for analyzing the security of information assets and detecting signs of suspicious and unexpected behavior. This setting prevents the system from generating audit events for every file backed up or restored, which could fill the security log in Windows, making it difficult to identify actual issues.
STIG Date
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Member Server Security Technical Implementation Guide 2013-07-25

Details

Check Text ( C-WN12-SO-000008_chk )
If the following registry value does not exist or is not configured as specified, this is a finding:

Registry Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry Path: \System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa

Value Name: FullPrivilegeAuditing

Value Type: REG_BINARY
Value: 0
Fix Text (F-WN12-SO-000008_fix)
Configure the policy value for Computer Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Local Policies -> Security Options -> "Audit: Audit the use of Backup and Restore privilege" to "Disabled".