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Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • DTOO127 - Add-ins are signed by Trusted Publisher

    Group
  • Application add-ins must be signed by Trusted Publisher.

    Office 2010 applications do not check the digital signature on application add-ins before opening them. Disabling or not configuring this setting may allow an application to load a dangerous add-i...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO128 - Data Execution Prevention

    Group
  • Data Execution Prevention must be enforced.

    Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a set of hardware and software technologies performing additional checks on memory to help prevent malicious code from running on a system. The primary benefit of...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO118 - Do not show data extraction options

    Group
  • Corrupt workbook options must be disallowed.

    This setting controls whether Excel presents users with a list of data extraction options before beginning an Open and Repair operation when users choose to open a corrupt workbook in repair or ext...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO119 - Turn off file validation

    Group
  • Configuration for file validation must be enforced.

    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

    Group
  • Open/Save actions for dBase III / IV files must be blocked.

    This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified by the title.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO112 - Dif and Sylk files

    Group
  • Open/Save actions for Dif and Sylk files must be blocked.

    This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified by the title. If enabling this policy setting, specify whether users can...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO113 - Macrosheets and add-in files

    Group
  • Open/Save actions for Excel 2 macrosheets and add-in files must be blocked.

    This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified by the title. If enabling this policy setting, specify whether users can...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO114 - Excel 2 worksheets

    Group
  • Open/Save actions for Excel 2 worksheets must be blocked.

    This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified by the title. If enabling this policy setting, specify whether users can...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO115 - Excel 3 macrosheets and add-in files

    Group
  • Open/Save actions for Excel 3 macrosheets and add-in files must be blocked.

    This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified by the title. If enabling this policy setting, specify whether users can...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO116 - Excel 3 worksheets

    Group
  • Open/Save actions for Excel 3 worksheets must be blocked.

    This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified by the title. If enabling this policy setting, specify whether users can...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO105 - Excel 4 macrosheets and add-in files

    Group
  • Open/Save actions for Excel 4 macrosheets and add-in files must be blocked.

    This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified by the title. If enabling this policy setting, specify whether users can...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO106 - Excel 4 workbooks

    Group
  • Open/Save actions for Excel 4 workbooks must be blocked.

    This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified by the title. If enabling this policy setting, specify whether users can...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO107 - Excel 4 worksheets

    Group
  • Open/Save actions for Excel 4 worksheets must be blocked.

    This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified by the title. If enabling this policy setting, specify whether users can...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO108 - Excel 95 workbooks

    Group
  • Actions for Excel 95 workbooks must be configured to edit in protected view.

    This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified by the title. If enabling this policy setting, specify whether users can...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO109 - Excel 95-97 workbooks and templates

    Group
  • Actions for Excel 95-97 workbooks and templates must be configured to edit in protected view.

    This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified by the title. If enabling this policy setting, specify whether users can...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO110 - Set default file block behavior

    Group
  • Blocking as default file block opening behavior must be enforced.

    Users can open, view, or edit a large number of file types in Excel 2010. Some file types are safer than others, as some could allow malicious code to become active on user computers or the networ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO120 -Web pages and Excel 2003 XML spreadsheets

    Group
  • Open/Save actions for Web pages and Excel 2003 XML spreadsheets must be blocked.

    This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified by the title. If enabling this policy setting, specify whether users can...
    Rule Low Severity
  • DTOO121 - Files from the Internet zone

    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
  • DTOO288 - Files in unsafe locations

    Group
  • Files in unsafe locations must be opened in Protected View.

    This policy setting determines if files located in unsafe locations will open in Protected View. If unsafe locations have not been specified, only the "Downloaded Program Files" and "Temporary Inte...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO292 - Set document behavior

    Group
  • Document behavior if file validation fails must be set.

    This policy key controls the behavior of how Office documents should be handled when failing File Validation. The options available are: -Block files completely. This will prevent users from openin...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO293 - Turn off Protected View for attachments

    Group
  • Attachments opened from Outlook must be in Protected View.

    This policy setting allows for determining if Excel files in Outlook attachments open in Protected View. If enabling this policy setting, Outlook attachments do not open in Protected View. If disab...
    Rule Medium Severity

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