Network access: Allow anonymous SID/Name translation

Information

Network access: Allow anonymous SID/name translation

This security setting determines if an anonymous user can request security identifier (SID) attributes for another user.

If this policy is enabled, a user with knowledge of an administrator's SID could contact a computer that has this policy enabled and use the SID to get the administrator's name.

Default on workstations and member servers: Disabled.
Default on domain controllers: Enabled.

Solution

Policy Path: Security Options
Policy Setting Name: Network access: Allow anonymous SID/Name translation

See Also

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-security-baselines/security-baseline-final-for-windows-10-v1809-and-windows-server/ba-p/701082/

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-3

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: 3da978d825956ab86288f39287c39a0af443d5ed05d7ccfe760909beedbb5fcb