Skip to content

Microsoft Office System 2013 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The Enable Updates and Disable Updates options in the UI must be hidden from users.

    This policy setting allows the user interface (UI) options to enable or disable Office automatic updates to be hidden from users. These options are found in the Product Information area of all Offi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Customer Experience Improvement Program for Office must be disabled.

    When users choose to participate in the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP), Office applications automatically send information to Microsoft about how the applications are used. This inf...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The first-run prompt to sign into Office365 must be disabled.

    Office 365 functionality allows users to provide credentials for accessing Office 365 using either their Microsoft Account, or the user ID assigned by the organization. Access to Office 365 will no...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Roaming settings must be stored locally and not synchronized to the Microsoft Office roaming settings web service.

    Microsoft Office includes the ability to roam settings for specific Office features amongst devices by storing this data in the cloud. This data includes user activity such as the list of most rece...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Office Telemetry Agent and Office applications must be configured to collect telemetry data.

    Office Telemetry is a new compatibility monitoring framework. When an Office document or solution is loaded, used, closed, or raises an error in certain Office 2013 applications, the Office Telemet...
    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.

Capacity
Modules