Security: Deny access to this computer from the network must include required accounts

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Deny access to this computer from the network user right on domain-joined member servers must be configured to prevent access from highly privileged domain accounts and local accounts and from unauthenticated access on all systems

Inappropriate granting of user rights can provide system, administrative, and other high-level capabilities.

The "Deny access to this computer from the network" user right defines the accounts that are prevented from logging on from the network.

In an Active Directory Domain, denying logons to the Enterprise Admins and Domain Admins groups on lower-trust systems helps mitigate the risk of privilege escalation from credential theft attacks, which could lead to the compromise of an entire domain.

Local accounts on domain-joined systems must also be assigned this right to decrease the risk of lateral movement resulting from credential theft attacks.

The Guests group must be assigned this right to prevent unauthenticated access.

Remediation

To fix this configure the policy value for
Computer Configuration
|_ Windows Settings
|_ Security Settings
|_ Local Policies
|_ User Rights Assignment
|_ Deny access to this computer from the network to include the following:
Domain Systems Only:
- Enterprise Admins group
- Domain Admins group
- "Local account and member of Administrators group" or "Local account" (see Note below)
All Systems:
- Guests group
Note: These are built-in security groups. "Local account" is more restrictive but may cause issues on servers such as systems that provide failover clustering.

STIG: Server
2025: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-278184
2022: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-254435
2019: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-205672
2016: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-225015

Desktop:
W11: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-253491
W10: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-220968

NIST 800-53 : AC-3, AC-6, CM-6
NIST 800-171: 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.4.6
CMMC v2.0 L2: AC.L2-3.1.1, AC.L2-3.1.2, CM.L2-3.4.6
PCI-DSS v4.0: 2.2.1, 7.2.1
HIPAA SR : ยง164.312(a)(1)
HIPAA HICP : Practice 3 (Identity and Access Management)