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WN12-SO-000063 - PKU2U authentication using online identities must be prevented.

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Information

PKU2U is a peer-to-peer authentication protocol. This setting prevents online identities from authenticating to domain-joined systems. Authentication will be centrally managed with Windows user accounts.

Solution

Configure the policy value for Computer Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Local Policies -> Security Options -> 'Network security: Allow PKU2U authentication requests to this computer to use online identities' to 'Disabled'.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_Windows_2012_and_2012_R2_MS_V3R5_STIG.zip

Item Details

References: CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-225503r569185_rule, STIG-ID|WN12-SO-000063, STIG-Legacy|SV-53178, STIG-Legacy|V-21953, Vuln-ID|V-225503

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: 6855edf491420d25e5118708b3fe2e6b7bac7f3d7912fb9930eff75da2914a69