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The Office Telemetry Agent must be configured to obfuscate the file name, file path, and title of Office documents before uploading telemetry data to the shared folder.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

This policy setting configures Office Telemetry Agent to disguise, or obfuscate, certain file properties that are reported in telemetry data. If this policy setting is enabled, Office Telemetry Agent obfuscates the file name, file path, and title of Office documents before uploading telemetry data to the shared folder. If this policy setting is disabled or not configured, Office Telemetry Agent uploads telemetry data that shows the full file name, file path, and title of all Office documents.

ID
SV-238042r1047204_rule
Version
DTOO416
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Set the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Office 2016 .> Telemetry Dashboard >> "Turn on privacy settings in Office Telemetry Agent" to "Enabled".