Auditing: System must be configured to audit Detailed Tracking - Plug and Play Events 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.

Plug and Play activity records events related to the successful connection of external devices.

Remediation

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

STIG: Server
2022: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-254306
2019: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-205839
2016: https://system32.eventsentry.com/stig/viewer/V-224887

NIST 800-53 : AU-2, AU-3, AU-12, CM-8, SI-4
NIST 800-171: 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.4.1
CMMC v2.0 L2: AU.L2-3.3.1, AU.L2-3.3.2, CM.L2-3.4.1
PCI-DSS v4.0: Req 10.2.1, Req 10.2.1.6, Req 12.3.3
HIPAA SR : §164.312(b), §164.310(d)(1)
HIPAA HICP : Practice 6 (Network Management), Practice 7 (Vulnerability Management)