No profile (default benchmark)
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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DTOO127 - Add-ins are signed by Trusted Publisher
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Application add-ins must be signed by Trusted Publisher.
<VulnDiscussion>Office 2010 applications do not check the digital signature on application add-ins before opening them. Disabling or not con...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO128 - Data Execution Prevention
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Data Execution Prevention must be enforced.
<VulnDiscussion>Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a set of hardware and software technologies performing additional checks on memory to help...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO118 - Do not show data extraction options
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Corrupt workbook options must be disallowed.
<VulnDiscussion>This setting controls whether Excel presents users with a list of data extraction options before beginning an Open and Repair...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO119 - Turn off file validation
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Configuration for file validation must be enforced.
<VulnDiscussion>Office Binary Documents (97-2003) are checked to see if they conform against the file format schema before they are opened. &...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO122 - dBase III / IV files
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Open/Save actions for dBase III / IV files must be blocked.
<VulnDiscussion>This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified ...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO112 - Dif and Sylk files
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Open/Save actions for Dif and Sylk files must be blocked.
<VulnDiscussion>This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified ...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO113 - Macrosheets and add-in files
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Open/Save actions for Excel 2 macrosheets and add-in files must be blocked.
<VulnDiscussion>This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified ...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO114 - Excel 2 worksheets
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Open/Save actions for Excel 2 worksheets must be blocked.
<VulnDiscussion>This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified ...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO115 - Excel 3 macrosheets and add-in files
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Open/Save actions for Excel 3 macrosheets and add-in files must be blocked.
<VulnDiscussion>This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified ...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO116 - Excel 3 worksheets
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Open/Save actions for Excel 3 worksheets must be blocked.
<VulnDiscussion>This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified ...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO105 - Excel 4 macrosheets and add-in files
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Open/Save actions for Excel 4 macrosheets and add-in files must be blocked.
<VulnDiscussion>This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified ...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO106 - Excel 4 workbooks
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Open/Save actions for Excel 4 workbooks must be blocked.
<VulnDiscussion>This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified ...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO107 - Excel 4 worksheets
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Open/Save actions for Excel 4 worksheets must be blocked.
<VulnDiscussion>This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified ...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO108 - Excel 95 workbooks
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Actions for Excel 95 workbooks must be configured to edit in protected view.
<VulnDiscussion>This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified ...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO109 - Excel 95-97 workbooks and templates
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Actions for Excel 95-97 workbooks and templates must be configured to edit in protected view.
<VulnDiscussion>This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified ...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO110 - Set default file block behavior
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Blocking as default file block opening behavior must be enforced.
<VulnDiscussion>Users can open, view, or edit a large number of file types in Excel 2010. Some file types are safer than others, as some cou...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO120 -Web pages and Excel 2003 XML spreadsheets
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Open/Save actions for Web pages and Excel 2003 XML spreadsheets must be blocked.
<VulnDiscussion>This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified ...Rule Low Severity -
DTOO121 - Files from the Internet zone
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Files from the Internet zone must be opened in Protected View.
<VulnDiscussion>This policy setting allows for determining if files downloaded from the Internet zone open in Protected View. If enabling thi...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO288 - Files in unsafe locations
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Files in unsafe locations must be opened in Protected View.
<VulnDiscussion>This policy setting determines if files located in unsafe locations will open in Protected View. If unsafe locations have not...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO292 - Set document behavior
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Document behavior if file validation fails must be set.
<VulnDiscussion>This policy key controls the behavior of how Office documents should be handled when failing File Validation. The options ava...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO293 - Turn off Protected View for attachments
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Attachments opened from Outlook must be in Protected View.
<VulnDiscussion>This policy setting allows for determining if Excel files in Outlook attachments open in Protected View. If enabling this pol...Rule Medium Severity
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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.