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II - Mission Support Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • The prompt to save to OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) must be disabled.

    OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) is a cloud based storage feature that introduces the capability for users to save documents to locations outside of protected enclaves. This feature introduces the risk...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

    Group
  • Office Presentation Service must be removed as an option for presenting PowerPoint and Word online.

    The Office Presentation Service is a free, public service that allows others to follow along in a web browser. Allowing this feature could result in presentations with DoD FOUO, PII and other prot...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

    Group
  • The Office Feedback tool must be disabled.

    The "Office Feedback" tool, also called "Send-a-Smile", allows a user to click on an icon and send feedback to Microsoft. Applications used by DoD users should not be able to provide feedback to co...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

    Group
  • 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
  • SRG-APP-000141

    Group
  • The ability of the Office Telemetry Agent to periodically upload telemetry data to a shared folder must be disabled.

    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
  • SRG-APP-000141

    Group
  • 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
  • SRG-APP-000210

    Group
  • Documents must be configured to not open as Read Write when browsing.

    By default, when an Office 2013 document on a web server is opened using Internet Explorer, the appropriate application opens the file in read-only mode. However, if the default configuration is ch...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000210

    Group
  • Relying on Vector markup Language (VML) for displaying graphics in browsers must be disallowed.

    When saving documents as web pages, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word can save vector-based graphics in Vector Markup Language (VML), which enables Internet Explorer to display them smoothly at any resol...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000210

    Group
  • Automation Security to enforce macro level security in Office documents must be configured.

    When a separate program is used to launch Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, or Word programmatically, any macros can run in the programmatically opened application without being blocked. This fun...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000210

    Group
  • The ability to create an online presentation programmatically must be disabled.

    Allowing online presentations to be created programmatically allows for the capability of malicious content to become imbedded in those programmatically created presentations.
    Rule Medium Severity

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