Auditing: System must be configured to audit Account Management - Computer Account Management 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.

Computer Account Management records events such as creating, changing, deleting, renaming, disabling, or enabling computer accounts.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000004-GPOS-00004, SRG-OS-000239-GPOS-00089, SRG-OS-000240-GPOS-00090, SRG-OS-000241-GPOS-00091, SRG-OS-000303-GPOS-00120, SRG-OS-000476-GPOS-00221

Remediation

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

STIG: Server (Domain Controllers)
2022: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-254407
2019: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-205628
2016: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-224986

NIST 800-53 : AU-2, AU-3, AU-12, AC-2, CM-8
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: 10.2.1, 10.2.1.2, 10.2.1.5
HIPAA SR : §164.312(b), §164.312(a)(1)
HIPAA HICP : Practice 3 (Identity and Access Management), Practice 5 (Asset Management)