Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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Attachments opened from Outlook must be in Protected View.
<VulnDiscussion>This policy setting allows for determining whether PowerPoint files in Outlook attachments open in Protected View. If enablin...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141
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Warning Bar settings for VBA macros must be configured.
<VulnDiscussion>This policy setting controls how the specified applications warn users when Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros are pr...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000210
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Disabling of user name and password syntax from being used in URLs must be enforced in PowerPoint Viewer.
<VulnDiscussion>The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) standard allows user authentication to be included in URL strings in the form http://usern...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000112
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The Internet Explorer Bind to Object functionality must be enabled in PowerPoint Viewer.
<VulnDiscussion>Internet Explorer performs a number of safety checks before initializing an ActiveX control. It will not initialize a control...Rule Medium Severity -
The Saved from URL mark must be selected to enforce Internet zone processing in PowerPoint Viewer.
<VulnDiscussion>Typically, when Internet Explorer loads a web page from a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) share that contains a Mark of the...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000210
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Navigation to URLs embedded in Office products must be blocked in PowerPoint Viewer.
<VulnDiscussion>To protect users from attacks, Internet Explorer usually does not attempt to load malformed URLs. This functionality can be c...Rule Medium Severity
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The content of the drawer really is up to you. It could have form fields, definition lists, text lists, labels, charts, progress bars, etc. Spacing recommendation is 24px margins. You can put tabs in here, and can also make the drawer scrollable.