Details

Allows users to access Project Server Web sites and Workspaces that have not been added to their trusted internet zones. If you enable this setting, users can access Project Server and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation sites that are not in their trusted internet zones. If this setting is disabled or not configured, users are required to add the Project Server and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation sites to their trusted internet site zones.

Solution

Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Project 2016 -> Project Options -> Security ‘Enable untrusted intranet zone access to Project server’ to ‘Disabled’.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• http://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/zip/U_Microsoft_Project_2016_V1R1_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: System and Communications Protection.This control applies to the following type of system Windows.

References

• 800-53|SC-18(4)
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-001170
• Rule-ID|SV-85351r1_rule
• STIG-ID|DTOO346
• Vuln-ID|V-70727

Source

• Tenable.com/audits