Auditing: System must be configured to audit Detailed Tracking - Process Creation 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.

Process Creation records events related to the creation of a process and the source.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000327-GPOS-00127, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215

Remediation

To fix this configure the policy value for
Computer Configuration
|_ Windows Settings
|_ Security Settings
|_ Advanced Audit Policy Configuration
|_ System Audit Policies
|_ Detailed Tracking
|_ Audit Process Creation with "Success" selected.

STIG: Server
2022: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-254307
2019: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-205770
2016: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-224888

Desktop
W11: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-253312
W10: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-220754

NIST 800-53 : AU-2, AU-3, AU-12, SI-4
NIST 800-171: 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.14.6
CMMC v2.0 L2: AU.L2-3.3.1, AU.L2-3.3.2, SI.L2-3.14.6
PCI-DSS v4.0: 10.2.1, 10.2.1.1, 10.2.1.5
HIPAA SR : ยง164.312(b)
HIPAA HICP : Practice 2 (Endpoint Protection), Practice 8 (Incident Response)