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Exchange audit data must be on separate partitions.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-221215EX16-ED-000140SV-221215r960948_ruleCCI-001348medium
Description
Log files help establish a history of activities and can be useful in detecting attack attempts or determining tuning adjustments to improve availability. Audit log content must always be considered sensitive and in need of protection. Successful exploit of an application server vulnerability may well be logged by monitoring or audit processes when it occurs. Writing log and audit data to a separate partition where separate security contexts protect them may offer the ability to protect this information from being modified or removed by the exploit mechanism.
STIGDate
Microsoft Exchange 2016 Edge Transport Server Security Technical Implementation Guide2024-12-06

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 3 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (1) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

MON-08.1Event Log Backup on Separate Physical Systems / Components
0.50
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (21) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

AC-17(1)Monitoring and Control
1.00
AC-2(1)Automated System Account Management
1.00
AC-2(4)Automated Audit Actions
1.00
AU-10Non-repudiation
1.00
AU-11Audit Record Retention
1.00
AU-12Audit Record Generation
1.00
AU-12(1)System-wide and Time-correlated Audit Trail
1.00
AU-12(3)Changes by Authorized Individuals
1.00
AU-4(1)Transfer to Alternate Storage
1.00
AU-5Response to Audit Logging Process Failures
1.00

+11 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-001348
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-221215r960948_chk)

Review the Email Domain Security Plan (EDSP). Determine the audit logs' assigned partition. Note: By default, the logs are located on the application partition in \Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Logging\. If the log files are not on a separate partition from the application, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-22919r411772_fix)

Update the EDSP. Configure the audit log location to be on a partition drive separate from the application.