Details

Disabling Internet Sharing reduces the remote attack surface of the system.

Solution

Perform the following to implement the prescribed state:
Open System Preferences
Select Sharing
Uncheck Internet Sharing

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://workbench.cisecurity.org/files/301

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 Unix.

References

• 800-53|CM-6b.
• CSCv6|3.1

Source

• Tenable.com/audits