Local volumes must use a format that supports NTFS attributes.

STIG ID: WN16-00-000150 |  SRG: SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048 |  Severity: high |  CCI:  | Vulnerability Id: V-224831

Vulnerability Discussion

The ability to set access permissions and auditing is critical to maintaining the security and proper access controls of a system. To support this, volumes must be formatted using a file system that supports NTFS attributes.

Check

Format volumes to use NTFS or ReFS.

Fix

Open "Computer Management".

Select "Disk Management" under "Storage".

For each local volume, if the file system does not indicate "NTFS", this is a finding.

"ReFS" (resilient file system) is also acceptable and would not be a finding.

This does not apply to system partitions such the Recovery and EFI System Partition.