Details

The ability to set access permissions and auditing is critical to maintaining the security and proper access controls of a system. To support this, volumes must be formatted using the NTFS file system.

Solution

Format all local volumes to use NTFS.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_Windows_10_V2R3_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Access Control.This control applies to the following type of system Windows.

References

• 800-53|AC-3
• CAT|I
• CCI|CCI-000213
• Rule-ID|SV-220708r569187_rule
• STIG-ID|WN10-00-000050
• STIG-Legacy|SV-77843
• STIG-Legacy|V-63353
• Vuln-ID|V-220708

Source

• Tenable.com/audits