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Analytics
17.8.1 Ensure 'Audit Sensitive Privilege Use' is set to 'Success and Failure'
Warning! Audit Deprecated
This audit has been deprecated and will be removed in a future update.
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This subcategory reports when a user account or service uses a sensitive privilege. A sensitive privilege includes the following user rights:Act as part of the operating system
Back up files and directories
Create a token object
Debug programs
Enable computer and user accounts to be trusted for delegation
Generate security audits
Impersonate a client after authentication
Load and unload device drivers
Manage auditing and security log
Modify firmware environment values
Replace a process-level token
Restore files and directories
Take ownership of files or other objects
Auditing this subcategory will create a high volume of events. Events for this subcategory include:
4672: Special privileges assigned to new logon.
4673: A privileged service was called.
4674: An operation was attempted on a privileged object.
The recommended state for this setting is: Success and Failure.
Rationale:
Auditing these events may be useful when investigating a security incident.
Impact:
If no audit settings are configured, or if audit settings are too lax on the computers in your organization, security incidents might not be detected or not enough evidence will be available for network forensic analysis after security incidents occur. However, if audit settings are too severe, critically important entries in the Security log may be obscured by all of the meaningless entries and computer performance and the available amount of data storage may be seriously affected. Companies that operate in certain regulated industries may have legal obligations to log certain events or activities.
Solution
To establish the recommended configuration, set the following Device Configuration Policy to Success and Failure:To access the Device Configuration Policy from the Intune Home page:
Click Devices
Click Configuration profiles
Click Create profile
Select the platform (Windows 10 and later)
Select the profile (Custom)
Enter a Name
Click Add
Enter the Details below
Name: <Enter name>
Description: <Enter Description>
OMA-URI: ./Device/Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/Audit/PrivilegeUse_AuditSensitivePrivilegeUse
Data type: Integer
Value: 3
Select Save
Continue through the Wizard to complete the creation of the profile (profile assignments, applicability etc.)
Note: More than one configuration setting from each of the Configuration profiles (ex: Administrative Templates, Custom etc.) can be added to each Device Configuration Policy.
Default Value:
No Auditing.
See Also
Item Details
References: CSCv7|6.3
Plugin: Windows
Control ID: 8b5587bc94bdb3a3031b50dd6159c8f7d1ef8e2d58f1c0c54d07f85801fe024f