Details

Unsecure apps for Office, which are apps that have web page or catalog locations that are not SSL-secured (https://), and/or are not in users’ Internet zones may allow data to be transmitted/accessed via clear text to outside sources. By configuring this policy to be disabled, users will be prevented from transmitting/accessing data in a nonsecure manner.

Solution

Set the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Office 2013 >> Security Settings >> Trust Center >> Trusted Catalogs ‘Allow Unsecure Apps and Catalogs’ to ‘Disabled’.

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-6b.
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-000366
• Rule-ID|SV-228526r508020_rule
• STIG-ID|DTOO412
• STIG-Legacy|SV-53214
• STIG-Legacy|V-40882
• Vuln-ID|V-228526

Source

• Tenable.com/audits