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III - Administrative Classified

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • DTOO111 - Enable IE Bind to Object

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  • Enabling IE Bind to Object functionality must be present.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Internet Explorer performs a number of safety checks before initializing an ActiveX control. It will not initialize a control...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO117 - Saved from URL

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  • Saved from URL mark to assure Internet zone processing must be enforced.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Typically, when Internet Explorer loads a web page from a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) share that contains a Mark of the...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO123-Block Navigation to URL from Office

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

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To protect users from attacks, Internet Explorer usually does not attempt to load malformed URLs. This functionality can be c...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO129 - Block Pop-Ups

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  • Links that invoke instances of Internet Explorer from within an Office product must be blocked.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Pop-up Blocker feature in Internet Explorer can be used to block most unwanted pop-up and pop-under windows from appearin...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO131 - Trust Bar Notifications

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  • Trust Bar Notifications for unsigned application add-ins must be blocked.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If an application is configured to require all add-ins be signed by a trusted publisher, any unsigned add-ins the application...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO304 - VBA Macro Warning settings

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  • Trust access for VBA must be disallowed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;VSTO projects require access to the Visual Basic for Applications project system in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, even though ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO136 - Default file format

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  • The Save commands default file format must be configured.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When users create new database files, Access saves them in the new Access format. Users can change this functionality by clic...
    Rule Low Severity
  • DTOO137 - Prompt / Convert Older Databases

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  • Prompts to convert older databases must be enforced.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When users open databases that were created in the Access 97 file format, Access 2013 prompts them to convert the database to...
    Rule Low Severity
  • DTOO135 - Modal Trust Decision Only

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  • Database functionality configurations must be displayed to the user.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When users open an untrusted Access 2013 database that contains user-programmed executable components, Access opens the datab...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO130 - Underline hyperlinks

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  • The configuration for enabling of hyperlinks must be enforced.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Access underlines hyperlinks that appear in tables, queries, forms, and reports. If this configuration is changed, users migh...
    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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