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Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • Windows Server 2019 Early Launch Antimalware, Boot-Start Driver Initialization Policy must prevent boot drivers identified as bad.

    Compromised boot drivers can introduce malware prior to protection mechanisms that load after initialization. The Early Launch Antimalware driver can limit allowed drivers based on classifications ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • Windows Server 2019 group policy objects must be reprocessed even if they have not changed.

    Registry entries for group policy settings can potentially be changed from the required configuration. This could occur as part of troubleshooting or by a malicious process on a compromised system....
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • Windows Server 2019 users must be prompted to authenticate when the system wakes from sleep (on battery).

    A system that does not require authentication when resuming from sleep may provide access to unauthorized users. Authentication must always be required when accessing a system. This setting ensures...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • Windows Server 2019 Windows Update must not obtain updates from other PCs on the Internet.

    Windows Update can obtain updates from additional sources instead of Microsoft. In addition to Microsoft, updates can be obtained from and sent to PCs on the local network as well as on the Interne...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • Windows Server 2019 Turning off File Explorer heap termination on corruption must be disabled.

    Legacy plug-in applications may continue to function when a File Explorer session has become corrupt. Disabling this feature will prevent this.
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • Windows Server 2019 File Explorer shell protocol must run in protected mode.

    The shell protocol will limit the set of folders that applications can open when run in protected mode. Restricting files an application can open to a limited set of folders increases the security ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • Windows Server 2019 must prevent attachments from being downloaded from RSS feeds.

    Attachments from RSS feeds may not be secure. This setting will prevent attachments from being downloaded from RSS feeds.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • Windows Server 2019 directory data (outside the root DSE) of a non-public directory must be configured to prevent anonymous access.

    To the extent that anonymous access to directory data (outside the root DSE) is permitted, read access control of the data is effectively disabled. If other means of controlling access (such as net...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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