V-259338
Microsoft Windows Server Domain Name System (DNS) Security Technical Implementation Guide
Title
The "Manage auditing and security log" user right must be assigned only to authorized personnel.
Description
<VulnDiscussion>Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. The actual auditing is performed by the operating system/network device manager, but the configuration to trigger the auditing is controlled by the DNS server. Because the configuration of the audit logs on the DNS server dictates which events are logged to correlate events, the permissions for ...
Fix Text (Documentation Requirement)
Configure the permissions on the DNS logs. Standard user accounts or groups must not have greater than READ access. The default permissions listed below satisfy this requirement: Eventlog - Full Control SYSTEM - Full Control Administrators - Full Control The default locations are: DNS Server %SystemRoot%\System32\Winevt\Logs\DNS Server.evtx