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Microsoft Excel 2010

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • AutoRepublish Warning Alert must be provided.

    AutoRepublish is a feature in Excel allowing workbooks to be automatically republished to the World Wide Web each time the workbook is saved. A number of changes might need to be made to allow the ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Load pictures from Web pages must be disallowed.

    When users open Web pages in Excel, Excel loads any graphics included in the pages, regardless of whether they were originally created in Excel. Allowing Excel to load graphics created in other pro...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Macro storage must be in Personal macro workbooks.

    The Record Macro dialog box includes a drop-down menu allowing users to choose whether to store the new macro in the current workbook, a new workbook, or their personal macro workbook (Personal.xls...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Add-on Management functionality must be allowed.

    Internet Explorer add-ons are pieces of code, run in Internet Explorer, to provide additional functionality. Rogue add-ons may contain viruses or other malicious code. Disabling or not configuring ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Protection from zone elevation must be enforced.

    Internet Explorer places restrictions on each web page users can use the browser to open. Web pages on a user's local computer have the fewest security restrictions and reside in the Local Machine ...
    Rule Medium Severity

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.

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