Details

Administrative accounts may perform any action on a system. Users with administrative accounts must be documented to ensure those with this level of access are clearly identified.

NOTE: Nessus has not performed this check. Please review the benchmark to ensure target compliance.

Solution

Create the necessary documentation that identifies the members of the Administrators group.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_Windows_2012_and_2012_R2_MS_V3R3_STIG.zip

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

References

• 800-53|CM-6b.
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-000366
• Rule-ID|SV-225240r569185_rule
• STIG-ID|WN12-00-000004
• STIG-Legacy|SV-51575
• STIG-Legacy|V-36658
• Vuln-ID|V-225240

Source

• Tenable.com/audits