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17.5.4 Ensure 'Audit Logon' 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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Information

This subcategory reports when a user attempts to log on to the system. These events occur on the accessed computer. For interactive logons, the generation of these events occurs on the computer that is logged on to. If a network logon takes place to access a share, these events generate on the computer that hosts the accessed resource. If you configure this setting to No auditing, it is difficult or impossible to determine which user has accessed or attempted to access organization computers. Events for this subcategory include:

4624: An account was successfully logged on.

4625: An account failed to log on.

4648: A logon was attempted using explicit credentials.

4675: SIDs were filtered.

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/AccountLogonLogoff_AuditLogon
Data type: Integer
Value: 3

Select Save

Continue through the Wizard to complete the creation of the profile (profile assignments, applicability etc.)

OR

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 (Settings Picker)

Click Create

Enter a Name

Click Add settings

Configure the following Setting:

Path: Auditing
Setting Name: Account Logon Logoff Audit Logon
Configuration: Success+ Failure

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:

Success.

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/14664

Item Details

References: CSCv7|6.3, CSCv7|16.13

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: 9221236acd38f7d956f273f7e9da8df699f218cff573648baccf112f02facda7