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CIS Microsoft Windows 11 Stand-alone v4.0.0 L1 BL

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Audit Details

Name: CIS Microsoft Windows 11 Stand-alone v4.0.0 L1 BL

Updated: 4/8/2026

Authority: CIS

Plugin: Windows

Revision: 1.2

Estimated Item Count: 408

File Details

Filename: CIS_Microsoft_Windows_11_Stand-alone_v4.0.0_L1_BL.audit

Size: 840 kB

MD5: 505f0de64780c8a55b9cd88b32b2995d
SHA256: 1646fbe37a1308d00120f01eee74b4ae0167c9650e115979245f21608543f65b

Audit Items

DescriptionCategories
1.1.1 (L1) Ensure 'Enforce password history' is set to '24 or more password(s)'
1.1.2 (L1) Ensure 'Maximum password age' is set to '365 or fewer days, but not 0'
1.1.3 (L1) Ensure 'Minimum password age' is set to '1 or more day(s)'
1.1.4 (L1) Ensure 'Minimum password length' is set to '14 or more character(s)'
1.1.5 (L1) Ensure 'Password must meet complexity requirements' is set to 'Enabled'
1.1.6 (L1) Ensure 'Relax minimum password length limits' is set to 'Enabled'
1.1.7 (L1) Ensure 'Store passwords using reversible encryption' is set to 'Disabled'
1.2.1 (L1) Ensure 'Account lockout duration' is set to '15 or more minute(s)'
1.2.2 (L1) Ensure 'Account lockout threshold' is set to '5 or fewer invalid logon attempt(s), but not 0'
1.2.3 (L1) Ensure 'Allow Administrator account lockout' is set to 'Enabled'
1.2.4 (L1) Ensure 'Reset account lockout counter after' is set to '15 or more minute(s)'
2.2.1 (L1) Ensure 'Access Credential Manager as a trusted caller' is set to 'No One'
2.2.2 (L1) Ensure 'Access this computer from the network' is set to 'Administrators, Remote Desktop Users'
2.2.3 (L1) Ensure 'Act as part of the operating system' is set to 'No One'
2.2.4 (L1) Ensure 'Adjust memory quotas for a process' is set to 'Administrators, LOCAL SERVICE, NETWORK SERVICE'
2.2.5 (L1) Ensure 'Allow log on locally' is set to 'Administrators, Users'
2.2.6 (L1) Ensure 'Allow log on through Remote Desktop Services' is set to 'Administrators, Remote Desktop Users'
2.2.7 (L1) Ensure 'Back up files and directories' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.8 (L1) Ensure 'Change the system time' is set to 'Administrators, LOCAL SERVICE'
2.2.9 (L1) Ensure 'Change the time zone' is set to 'Administrators, LOCAL SERVICE, Users'
2.2.10 (L1) Ensure 'Create a pagefile' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.11 (L1) Ensure 'Create a token object' is set to 'No One'
2.2.12 (L1) Ensure 'Create global objects' is set to 'Administrators, LOCAL SERVICE, NETWORK SERVICE, SERVICE'
2.2.13 (L1) Ensure 'Create permanent shared objects' is set to 'No One'
2.2.14 (L1) Ensure 'Create symbolic links' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.15 (L1) Ensure 'Debug programs' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.16 (L1) Ensure 'Deny access to this computer from the network' to include 'Guests'
2.2.17 (L1) Ensure 'Deny log on as a batch job' to include 'Guests'
2.2.18 (L1) Ensure 'Deny log on as a service' to include 'Guests'
2.2.19 (L1) Ensure 'Deny log on locally' to include 'Guests'
2.2.20 (L1) Ensure 'Deny log on through Remote Desktop Services' to include 'Guests'
2.2.21 (L1) Ensure 'Enable computer and user accounts to be trusted for delegation' is set to 'No One'
2.2.22 (L1) Ensure 'Force shutdown from a remote system' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.23 (L1) Ensure 'Generate security audits' is set to 'LOCAL SERVICE, NETWORK SERVICE'
2.2.24 (L1) Ensure 'Impersonate a client after authentication' is set to 'Administrators, LOCAL SERVICE, NETWORK SERVICE, SERVICE'
2.2.25 (L1) Ensure 'Increase scheduling priority' is set to 'Administrators, Window Manager\Window Manager Group'
2.2.26 (L1) Ensure 'Load and unload device drivers' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.27 (L1) Ensure 'Lock pages in memory' is set to 'No One'
2.2.30 (L1) Ensure 'Manage auditing and security log' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.31 (L1) Ensure 'Modify an object label' is set to 'No One'
2.2.32 (L1) Ensure 'Modify firmware environment values' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.33 (L1) Ensure 'Perform volume maintenance tasks' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.34 (L1) Ensure 'Profile single process' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.35 (L1) Ensure 'Profile system performance' is set to 'Administrators, NT SERVICE\WdiServiceHost'
2.2.36 (L1) Ensure 'Replace a process level token' is set to 'LOCAL SERVICE, NETWORK SERVICE'
2.2.37 (L1) Ensure 'Restore files and directories' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.38 (L1) Ensure 'Shut down the system' is set to 'Administrators, Users'
2.2.39 (L1) Ensure 'Take ownership of files or other objects' is set to 'Administrators'
2.3.1.1 (L1) Ensure 'Accounts: Guest account status' is set to 'Disabled'
2.3.1.2 (L1) Ensure 'Accounts: Limit local account use of blank passwords to console logon only' is set to 'Enabled'