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Microsoft Windows 10 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The built-in Microsoft password complexity filter must be enabled.

    <VulnDiscussion>The use of complex passwords increases their strength against guessing and brute-force attacks. This setting configures the ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000073-GPOS-00041

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Reversible password encryption must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Storing passwords using reversible encryption is essentially the same as storing clear-text versions of the passwords. For th...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000470-GPOS-00214

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Remote calls to the Security Account Manager (SAM) must be restricted to Administrators.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Windows Security Account Manager (SAM) stores users' passwords. Restricting remote rpc connections to the SAM to Adminis...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • NTLM must be prevented from falling back to a Null session.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;NTLM sessions that are allowed to fall back to Null (unauthenticated) sessions may gain unauthorized access.&lt;/VulnDiscussi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • PKU2U authentication using online identities must be prevented.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;PKU2U is a peer-to-peer authentication protocol. This setting prevents online identities from authenticating to domain-join...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000120-GPOS-00061

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group

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