Audit Policy: Detailed Tracking: DPAPI ActivityID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:18890 | Date: (C)2014-05-29 (M)2021-06-02 |
Class: COMPLIANCE | Family: windows |
Auditing of Detailed Tracking: DPAPI Activity events on success should be enabled or disabled as appropriate.
This subcategory reports encrypt or decrypt calls into the data protections application interface (DPAPI). DPAPI is used to protect secret information such as stored password and key information. Events for this subcategory include: - 4692: Backup of data protection master key was attempted. - 4693: Recovery of data protection master key was attempted. - 4694: Protection of auditable protected data was attempted. - 4695: Unprotection of auditable protected data was attempted. Refer to the Microsoft Knowledgebase article Description of security events in Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008 for the most recent information about this setting: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/947226.
Fix:
(1) GPO: Commandline: auditpol.exe
(2) REG: NO INFO
Platform: |
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 |