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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • DTOO104 - Disable user name and password

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  • Disabling of user name and password syntax from being used in URLs must be enforced in PowerPoint.

    The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) standard allows user authentication to be included in URL strings in the form http://username:password@example.com. A malicious user might use this URL syntax to ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO111 - Enable IE Bind to Object

    Group
  • The Internet Explorer Bind to Object functionality must be enabled in PowerPoint.

    Internet Explorer performs a number of safety checks before initializing an ActiveX control. It will not initialize a control if the kill bit for the control is set in the registry, or if the secur...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO117 - Saved from URL

    Group
  • The Saved from URL mark must be selected to enforce Internet zone processing in PowerPoint.

    Typically, when Internet Explorer loads a web page from a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) share that contains a Mark of the Web (MOTW) comment, indicating the page was saved from a site on the In...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO123-Block Navigation to URL from Office

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

    To protect users from attacks, Internet Explorer usually does not attempt to load malformed URLs. This functionality can be controlled separately for instances of Internet Explorer spawned by Offic...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO129 - Block Pop-Ups

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

    The Pop-up Blocker feature in Internet Explorer can be used to block most unwanted pop-up and pop-under windows from appearing. This functionality can be controlled separately for instances of Inte...
    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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