Auditing: System must be configured to audit Object Access - Removable Storage failures

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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.

Removable Storage auditing under Object Access records events related to access attempts on file system objects on removable storage devices.

Remediation

To fix this configure the policy value for

Computer Configuration
|_ Windows Settings
|_ Security Settings
|_ Advanced Audit Policy Configuration
|_ System Audit Policies
|_ Object Access
|_ Audit Removable Storage with "Failure" selected.

STIG: Server
2022: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-254318
2019: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-205841
2016: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-224899

Desktop
W11: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-253323
W10: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-220765

NIST 800-53 : AU-2, AU-3, AU-12, MP-7, SI-4
NIST 800-171: 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.8.7
CMMC v2.0 L2: AU.L2-3.3.1, AU.L2-3.3.2, MP.L2-3.8.7
PCI-DSS v4.0: Req 10.2.1, Req 10.2.1.1, Req 12.3.3
HIPAA SR : §164.312(b), §164.310(d)(1), §164.312(c)(1)
HIPAA HICP : Practice 6 (Network Management), Practice 7 (Vulnerability Management)