Details

Office 2013 can be configured to prompt users for credentials to Office365 using either their Microsoft Account or the user ID assigned by an organization for accessing Office 365. Access to Office 365 will not be permitted and only locally installed and configured Office installations will be used.

Solution

Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2013 -> Miscellaneous -> ‘Block signing into Office’ to ‘Enabled: org ID only’.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_OfficeSystem_2013_V2R1_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system Windows.

References

• 800-53|CM-7a.
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-000381
• Rule-ID|SV-228535r508020_rule
• STIG-ID|DTOO405
• STIG-Legacy|SV-53194
• STIG-Legacy|V-40862
• Vuln-ID|V-228535

Source

• Tenable.com/audits