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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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Information

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> ex: 17.9.1 (L1) Ensure 'Audit IPsec Driver' is set to 'Success and Failure'
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.)

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: Privilege Use Audit Sensitive Privilege Use
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:

No Auditing.

See Also

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

Item Details

References: CSCv7|6.3

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: aed0215cc5f07d4c050e491cc8a75d5478576877e8d241cb525824d3a46fe31b