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Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Windows Server 2022 Windows Remote Management (WinRM) client must not use Basic authentication.

    Basic authentication uses plain-text passwords that could be used to compromise a system. Disabling Basic authentication will reduce this potential.
    Rule High Severity
  • Windows Server 2022 Windows Remote Management (WinRM) service must not allow unencrypted traffic.

    Unencrypted remote access to a system can allow sensitive information to be compromised. Windows remote management connections must be encrypted to prevent this. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000393-GPOS-0017...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Windows Server 2022 must have PowerShell Transcription enabled.

    Maintaining an audit trail of system activity logs can help identify configuration errors, troubleshoot service disruptions, and analyze compromises that have occurred, as well as detect attacks. A...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Windows Server 2022 must only allow administrators responsible for the domain controller to have Administrator rights on the system.

    An account that does not have Administrator duties must not have Administrator rights. Such rights would allow the account to bypass or modify required security restrictions on that machine and mak...
    Rule High Severity
  • Windows Server 2022 Kerberos service ticket maximum lifetime must be limited to 600 minutes or less.

    This setting determines the maximum amount of time (in minutes) that a granted session ticket can be used to access a particular service. Session tickets are used only to authenticate new connectio...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Windows Server 2022 Kerberos user ticket lifetime must be limited to 10 hours or less.

    In Kerberos, there are two types of tickets: Ticket Granting Tickets (TGTs) and Service Tickets. Kerberos tickets have a limited lifetime so the time an attacker has to implement an attack is limit...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Windows Server 2022 Kerberos policy user ticket renewal maximum lifetime must be limited to seven days or less.

    This setting determines the period of time (in days) during which a user's Ticket Granting Ticket (TGT) may be renewed. This security configuration limits the amount of time an attacker has to crac...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Windows Server 2022 Active Directory Group Policy objects must have proper access control permissions.

    When directory service database objects do not have appropriate access control permissions, it may be possible for malicious users to create, read, update, or delete the objects and degrade or dest...
    Rule High Severity
  • Windows Server 2022 Active Directory Domain Controllers Organizational Unit (OU) object must have the proper access control permissions.

    When Active Directory objects do not have appropriate access control permissions, it may be possible for malicious users to create, read, update, or delete the objects and degrade or destroy the in...
    Rule High Severity
  • Windows Server 2022 data files owned by users must be on a different logical partition from the directory server data files.

    When directory service data files, especially for directories used for identification, authentication, or authorization, reside on the same logical partition as user-owned files, the directory serv...
    Rule Medium Severity

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