Details

As a part of Windows security, computer account passwords are changed automatically. Enabling this policy to disable automatic password changes can make the system more vulnerable to malicious access. Frequent password changes can be a significant safeguard for your system. If this policy is disabled, a new password for the computer account will be generated every week.

Solution

Configure the policy value for Computer Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Local Policies -> Security Options -> ‘Domain Member- Disable Machine Account Password Changes’ to ‘Disabled’.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• http://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/zip/Oct2016/U_Windows_Vista_V6R41_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|III
• CCI|CCI-000366
• CSCv6|16
• Rule-ID|SV-29029r1_rule
• STIG-ID|3.044
• Vuln-ID|V-1165

Source

• Tenable.com/audits