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Microsoft Word 2010 STIG

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • 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
  • DTOO142 - Force Scan Encr. Macros in open XML

    Group
  • Files from the Internet zone must be opened in Protected View.

    This policy setting allows for determining if files downloaded from the Internet zone open in Protected View. If enabling this policy setting, files downloaded from the Internet zone do not open in...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO134 - Trusted locations on computer

    Group
  • 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 ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO139 - Save files default format

    Group
  • Save files default format must be configured.

    When users create new document files, Word 2010 saves them in the new Word 2010 .docx format. Ensure this setting is enabled to specify that all new files are created in Word 2010. If a new docum...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO146-Disable Trust access to VB Project Macros

    Group
  • 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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO304 - VBA Macro Warning settings

    Group
  • Warning Bar settings for VBA macros must be configured.

    When users open files containing VBA Macros, applications open the files with the macros disabled and displays the Trust Bar with a warning that macros are present and have been disabled. Users may...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO302 - Don't update Links at Open

    Group
  • DTOO303 - Warn before printing

    Group
  • A warning before printing that the document contains tracking changes must be provided.

    Tracked changes or comments embedded within a document may contain sensitive, insulting, or embarrassing information that the document owner forgot, or that a contributor may have placed.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO126 - Add-on Management

    Group
  • 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
  • DTOO209 - Zone Elevation Protection

    Group
  • 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
  • DTOO211 - Restrict ActiveX Install

    Group
  • ActiveX Installs must be configured for proper restriction.

    Microsoft ActiveX controls allow unmanaged, unprotected code to run on the user computers. ActiveX controls do not run within a protected container in the browser like the other types of HTML or Mi...
    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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