CIS Microsoft Windows Server 2016 DC L1 v2.0.0

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Audit Details

Name: CIS Microsoft Windows Server 2016 DC L1 v2.0.0

Updated: 6/17/2024

Authority: CIS

Plugin: Windows

Revision: 1.9

Estimated Item Count: 331

File Details

Filename: CIS_Microsoft_Windows_Server_2016_Benchmark_v2.0.0_L1_DC.audit

Size: 763 kB

MD5: df81627e647298f0658ae5d7b30bf922
SHA256: 1170ecd40a1108e34ec96372e78bed7227308e13adb58d4f789841999edb6a21

Audit Items

DescriptionCategories
1.1.1 Ensure 'Enforce password history' is set to '24 or more password(s)'
1.1.2 Ensure 'Maximum password age' is set to '365 or fewer days, but not 0'
1.1.3 Ensure 'Minimum password age' is set to '1 or more day(s)'
1.1.4 Ensure 'Minimum password length' is set to '14 or more character(s)'
1.1.5 Ensure 'Password must meet complexity requirements' is set to 'Enabled'
1.1.6 Ensure 'Store passwords using reversible encryption' is set to 'Disabled' - Disabled
1.2.1 Ensure 'Account lockout duration' is set to '15 or more minute(s)'
1.2.2 Ensure 'Account lockout threshold' is set to '5 or fewer invalid logon attempt(s), but not 0'
1.2.4 Ensure 'Reset account lockout counter after' is set to '15 or more minute(s)' - 15 or more minute(s)
2.2.1 Ensure 'Access Credential Manager as a trusted caller' is set to 'No One'
2.2.2 Ensure 'Access this computer from the network' is set to 'Administrators, Authenticated Users, ENTERPRISE DOMAIN CONTROLLERS' (DC only)
2.2.4 Ensure 'Act as part of the operating system' is set to 'No One'
2.2.5 Ensure 'Add workstations to domain' is set to 'Administrators' (DC only)
2.2.6 Ensure 'Adjust memory quotas for a process' is set to 'Administrators, LOCAL SERVICE, NETWORK SERVICE'
2.2.7 Ensure 'Allow log on locally' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.8 Ensure 'Allow log on through Remote Desktop Services' is set to 'Administrators' (DC only)
2.2.10 Ensure 'Back up files and directories' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.11 Ensure 'Change the system time' is set to 'Administrators, LOCAL SERVICE'
2.2.12 Ensure 'Change the time zone' is set to 'Administrators, LOCAL SERVICE'
2.2.13 Ensure 'Create a pagefile' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.14 Ensure 'Create a token object' is set to 'No One'
2.2.15 Ensure 'Create global objects' is set to 'Administrators, LOCAL SERVICE, NETWORK SERVICE, SERVICE'
2.2.16 Ensure 'Create permanent shared objects' is set to 'No One'
2.2.17 Ensure 'Create symbolic links' is set to 'Administrators' (DC only)
2.2.19 Ensure 'Debug programs' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.20 Ensure 'Deny access to this computer from the network' to include 'Guests' (DC only)
2.2.22 Ensure 'Deny log on as a batch job' to include 'Guests'
2.2.23 Ensure 'Deny log on as a service' to include 'Guests'
2.2.24 Ensure 'Deny log on locally' to include 'Guests'
2.2.25 Ensure 'Deny log on through Remote Desktop Services' to include 'Guests' (DC only)
2.2.27 Ensure 'Enable computer and user accounts to be trusted for delegation' is set to 'Administrators' (DC only)
2.2.29 Ensure 'Force shutdown from a remote system' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.30 Ensure 'Generate security audits' is set to 'LOCAL SERVICE, NETWORK SERVICE'
2.2.31 Ensure 'Impersonate a client after authentication' is set to 'Administrators, LOCAL SERVICE, NETWORK SERVICE, SERVICE' (DC only)
2.2.33 Ensure 'Increase scheduling priority' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.34 Ensure 'Load and unload device drivers' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.35 Ensure 'Lock pages in memory' is set to 'No One'
2.2.37 Ensure 'Manage auditing and security log' is set to 'Administrators' and (when Exchange is running in the environment) 'Exchange Servers' (DC only)
2.2.39 Ensure 'Modify an object label' is set to 'No One'
2.2.40 Ensure 'Modify firmware environment values' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.41 Ensure 'Perform volume maintenance tasks' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.42 Ensure 'Profile single process' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.43 Ensure 'Profile system performance' is set to 'Administrators, NT SERVICE\WdiServiceHost'
2.2.44 Ensure 'Replace a process level token' is set to 'LOCAL SERVICE, NETWORK SERVICE'
2.2.45 Ensure 'Restore files and directories' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.46 Ensure 'Shut down the system' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.47 Ensure 'Synchronize directory service data' is set to 'No One' (DC only)
2.2.48 Ensure 'Take ownership of files or other objects' is set to 'Administrators'
2.3.1.1 Ensure 'Accounts: Block Microsoft accounts' is set to 'Users can't add or log on with Microsoft accounts' - t add or log on with Microsoft accounts
2.3.1.3 Ensure 'Accounts: Limit local account use of blank passwords to console logon only' is set to 'Enabled' - Enabled