AUDIT_POLICY

This policy item checks for the values defined in “Security Settings -> Local Policies -> Audit Policy”.

The check is performed by calling the function LsaQueryInformationPolicy with the level PolicyAuditEventsInformation.

Usage

<custom_item>

type: AUDIT_POLICY

description: ["description"]

value_type: [VALUE_TYPE]

value_data: [value]

(optional) check_type: [value]

audit_policy: [PASSWORD_POLICY_TYPE]

</custom_item>

This item uses the audit_policy field to describe which element of the password policy must be audited. The allowed types are:

  • AUDIT_ACCOUNT_LOGON (“Audit account logon events”)
  • AUDIT_ACCOUNT_MANAGER (“Audit account management”)
  • AUDIT_DIRECTORY_SERVICE_ACCESS (“Audit directory service access”)
  • AUDIT_LOGON (“Audit logon events”)
  • AUDIT_OBJECT_ACCESS (“Audit object access”)
  • AUDIT_POLICY_CHANGE (“Audit policy change”)
  • AUDIT_PRIVILEGE_USE (“Audit privilege use”)
  • AUDIT_DETAILED_TRACKING (“Audit process tracking”)
  • AUDIT_SYSTEM (“Audit system events”)

value_type: AUDIT_SET

value_data: "No auditing", "Success", "Failure", "Success, Failure"

Note: There is a required space in “Success, Failure”.

Example

<custom_item>

type: AUDIT_POLICY

description: "Audit policy change"

value_type: AUDIT_SET

value_data: "Failure"

audit_policy: AUDIT_POLICY_CHANGE

</custom_item>