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Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 STIG

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

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

    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...
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  • DTOO129 - Block Pop-Ups

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  • DTOO131 - Trust Bar Notifications

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  • 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...
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  • DTOO210 - Block opening of pre-release versions

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  • The opening of pre-release versions of file formats new to PowerPoint 2013 through the Compatibility Pack for Office 2013 and PowerPoint 2013 Converter must be blocked.

    Versions of file formats from pre-release versions of Office applications may introduce bugs found in those pre-release versions of the applications which have been subsequently fixed in the final ...
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  • DTOO133-Disable all trusted locations

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  • DTOO142 - Force Scan Encr. Macros in open XML

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  • DTOO134 - Trusted locations on computer

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  • Disallowance of Trusted Locations on the network must be enforced.

    Files located in Trusted Locations and specified in the Trust Center are assumed to be safe. Content, code, and add-ins are allowed to load from Trusted Locations with minimal security and without ...
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  • DTOO139 - Save files default format

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  • DTOO146-Disable Trust access to VB Project Macros

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  • Trust access for VBA must be disallowed.

    VSTO projects require access to the Visual Basic for Applications project system in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, even though the projects do not use Visual Basic for Applications. Design-time suppo...
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  • DTOO304 - VBA Macro Warning settings

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  • DTOO290 - Make Hidden marks visible in PowerPoint

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  • DTOO289 - Running programs in PowerPoint

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  • The ability to run programs from a PowerPoint presentation must be disallowed.

    Action buttons can be used to launch external programs from PowerPoint presentations. If a malicious person adds an action button to a presentation that launches a dangerous program, it could signi...
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  • DTOO291 - Linked images

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  • Automatic download of linked images must be disallowed.

    When users insert images into PowerPoint presentations, they can select Link to File instead of Insert. If they do so, the image is represented by a link to a file on disk instead of being embedded...
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  • DTOO126 - Add-on Management

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siemur/test-space

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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