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Windows: File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) issues

  1. Prerequisites: An agent needs to be deployed on the respective machine.
  2. Open the EventLog Analyzer GUI. Go to the Settings tab > Configuration > Manage File Integrity Monitoring. Configure the folders in the machine that should be monitored.
  3. Verify whether the following audit policies are enabled for the server:
    1. Audit Object Access
      1. Audit File System (Success, Failure)
      2. Audit Handle Manipulation (Success, Failure)
      3. Audit File Share (Success)
  4. Refer to the following steps to check if object-level auditing is configured for all the folders or drives:
    1. Right-click the relevant folder or drive, click Properties, and select the Security tab.
    2. Click Advanced, then go to the Auditing tab.
    3. Check if the following permissions have been provided for the Everyone group. 



Principal

Type
Access
Applies to
File or Folder Changes
Everyone
Success and failure

  1. Create files or write data
  2. Create folders or append data
  3. Write attributes
  4. Write extended attributes
  5. Delete subfolders and files
  6. Delete
This folder, subfolders, and files
Folder Permission and Owner Changes
Everyone
Success and failure

  1. Take ownership
  2. Change ownership
This folder and subfolders

5. Open the command prompt on the FIM machine and execute the following command to ensure that the policies are applied successfully.
  1. auditpol /get /category:"Object Access" 
Windows: File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) issues



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