STIGUI
V-259648CAT II — Medium severitySV-259648r960780_rule

Exchange must have administrator audit logging enabled.

Rule version EX19-MB-000016 · STIG v2 · 2025-05-14

Discussion

Unauthorized or malicious data changes can compromise the integrity and usefulness of the data. Automated attacks or malicious users with elevated privileges have the ability to effect change using the same mechanisms as email administrators. Auditing any changes to access mechanisms not only supports accountability and nonrepudiation for those authorized to define the environment but also enables investigation of changes made by others who may not be authorized.

Note: This administrator auditing feature audits all exchange changes regardless of the user's assigned role or permissions.

Check

Open the Exchange Management Shell and enter the following command:

Get-AdminAuditLogConfig | Select-Object -Property Name, AdminAuditLogEnabled

If the value of "AdminAuditLogEnabled" is not set to "True", this is a finding.

Fix

Open the Exchange Management Shell and enter the following command:

Set-AdminAuditLogConfig -AdminAuditLogEnabled $true

Identifiers

Group ID
V-259648
Group title
SRG-APP-000027
Rule ID
SV-259648r960780_rule
Check ID
C-63387r942256_chk
Fix ID
F-63295r942257_fix