STIGUI
V-220777CAT II — Medium severitySV-220777r958732_rule

The system must be configured to audit System - System Integrity failures.

Rule version WN10-AU-000155 · STIG v3 · 2025-09-24

Discussion

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. Audit logs are necessary to provide a trail of evidence in case the system or network is compromised. Collecting this data is essential for analyzing the security of information assets and detecting signs of suspicious and unexpected behavior.

System Integrity records events related to violations of integrity to the security subsystem.

Check

Security Option "Audit: Force audit policy subcategory settings (Windows Vista or later) to override audit policy category settings" must be set to "Enabled" (WN10-SO-000030) for the detailed auditing subcategories to be effective.

Use the AuditPol tool to review the current Audit Policy configuration: Open a Command Prompt with elevated privileges ("Run as Administrator"). Enter "AuditPol /get /category:*".

Compare the AuditPol settings with the following. If the system does not audit the following, this is a finding:

System >> System Integrity - Failure

Fix

Configure the policy value for Computer Configuration >> Windows Settings >> Security Settings >> Advanced Audit Policy Configuration >> System Audit Policies >> System >> "Audit System Integrity" with "Failure" selected.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-220777
Group title
SRG-OS-000327-GPOS-00127
Rule ID
SV-220777r958732_rule
Check ID
C-22492r554816_chk
Fix ID
F-22481r554817_fix