Auditing: System must be configured to audit Logon/Logoff - Group Membership successes

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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.

Audit Group Membership records information related to the group membership of a user's logon token.

Remediation

To fix this configure the policy value for
Computer Configuration
|_ Windows Settings
|_ Advanced Audit Policy Configuration
|_ System Audit Policies
|_ Logon/Logoff
|_ Audit Group Membership with "Success" selected.

STIG: Server
2022: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-254310
2019: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-205834
2016: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-224891

Desktop
W11: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-253314
W10: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-220756

NIST 800-53 : AU-2, AU-3, AU-12, AC-2, AC-6
NIST 800-171: 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.1.1
CMMC v2.0 L2: AU.L2-3.3.1, AU.L2-3.3.2, AC.L2-3.1.1
PCI-DSS v4.0: Req 10.2.1, Req 10.2.1.2, Req 10.2.1.5
HIPAA SR : §164.312(b), §164.308(a)(3), §164.308(a)(4)
HIPAA HICP : Practice 3 (Identity and Access Management), Practice 8 (Incident Response)