| V-26580 | Medium | The Security event log will be configured to a minimum size requirement. | Inadequate log size will cause the log to fill up quickly and require frequent clearing by administrative personnel. |
| V-14230 | Medium | Audit policy using subcategories is enabled. | This policy setting allows administrators to enable the more precise auditing capabilities present in Windows Vista and later. |
| V-26533 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "Account Management -> Other Account Management Events" successes.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26529 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "Account Logon -> Credential Validation" successes. | 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 detecting... |
| V-26582 | Medium | The System event log will be configured to a minimum size requirement. | Inadequate log size will cause the log to fill up quickly and require frequent clearing by administrative personnel. |
| V-26581 | Medium | The Setup event log will be configured to a minimum size requirement. | Inadequate log size will cause the log to fill up quickly and require frequent clearing by administrative personnel. |
| V-26538 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "Account Management -> User Account Management" failures.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26539 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "Detailed Tracking -> Process Creation" successes.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26530 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "Account Logon -> Credential Validation" failures.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26531 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "Account Management -> Computer Account Management" successes.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26536 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "Account Management -> Security Group Management" failures.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26537 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "Account Management -> User Account Management" successes.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26534 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "Account Management -> Other Account Management Events" failures.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26535 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "Account Management -> Security Group Management" successes.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26532 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "Account Management -> Computer Account Management" failures.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26549 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "Privilege Use -> Sensitive Privilege Use" successes.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26548 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "Policy Change -> Authentication Policy Change" successes.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26547 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "Policy Change -> Audit Policy Change" failures.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26546 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "Policy Change -> Audit Policy Change" successes.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26545 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "Object Access -> Registry" failures.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26544 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "Object Access -> File System" failures.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26543 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "Logon/Logoff -> Special Logon" successes.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26542 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "Logon/Logoff -> Logon" failures.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26541 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "Logon/Logoff -> Logon" successes.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26540 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "Logon/Logoff -> Logoff" successes.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-14228 | Medium | Audit access to global system objects is not turned off. | This policy setting stops the system from setting up a default system access control list for certain system objects which could create a very large number of security events filling the security... |
| V-26558 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "System -> System Integrity" failures.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26554 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "System -> Security State Change" failures.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-14229 | Medium | Audit of backup and restore privileges is not turned off. | This policy setting stops the system from generating audit events for every file backed up or restored which could fill the security log in Windows. |
| V-26556 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "System -> Security System Extension" failures.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26557 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "System -> System Integrity" successes.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26550 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "Privilege Use -> Sensitive Privilege Use" failures.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26551 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "System -> IPSec Driver" successes.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26552 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "System -> IPSec Driver" failures.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26553 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "System -> Security State Change" successes.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-26579 | Medium | The Application event log will be configured to a minimum size requirement. | Inadequate log size will cause the log to fill up quickly and require frequent clearing by administrative personnel. |
| V-26489 | Medium | Unauthorized accounts will not have the "Generate security audits" user right. | Inappropriate granting of user rights can provide system, administrative, and other high level capabilities.
The "Generate security audits" right specifies users and processes that can generate... |
| V-26555 | Medium | The system will be configured to audit "System -> Security System Extension" successes.
| 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 detecting... |
| V-1091 | Low | System halts once an event log has reached its maximum size. | A system that is configured to halt if an event log becomes full can create a denial of service situation. |
| V-15672 | Low | Event Viewer events.asp links are available. | This check verifies that Events.asp hyperlinks in Event Viewer are available. |
