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Microsoft Excel 2013 STIG

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Navigation to URLs embedded in Office products must be blocked.

    To protect users from attacks, Internet Explorer usually does not attempt to load malformed URLs. This functionality can be controlled separately for instances of Internet Explorer spawned by Offic...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Links that invoke instances of Internet Explorer from within an Office product must be blocked.

    The "Pop-up Blocker" feature in Internet Explorer can be used to block most unwanted pop-up and pop-under windows from appearing. This functionality can be controlled separately for instances of In...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Trust Bar Notifications for unsigned application add-ins must be blocked.

    If an application is configured to require all add-ins to be signed by a trusted publisher, any unsigned add-ins the application loads will be disabled and the application will display the Trust Ba...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • All automatic loading from trusted locations must be disabled.

    Trusted locations specified in the Trust Center are used to define file locations assumed to be safe. Content, code, and add-ins are allowed to load from trusted locations with a minimal amount of ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The scanning of encrypted macros in open XML documents must be enforced.

    When an Office Open XML document (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) is rights-managed, or password-protected, any macros embedded in the document are encrypted along with the rest of the contents. By d...
    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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