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

User Account Management records events such as creating, changing, deleting, renaming, disabling, or enabling user 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 User Account Management with "Failure" selected.

STIG: Server

2022: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-254305
2019: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-205627
2016: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-224886

Desktop:
W11: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-253309
W10: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-220751

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, Req 10.2.1.6
HIPAA SR : §164.312(b), §164.308(a)(3), §164.308(a)(5)
HIPAA HICP : Practice 3 (Identity and Access Management), Practice 8 (Incident Response)