Details

The Office Presentation Service is a free, public service that allows others to follow along in a web browser. Allowing this feature could result in presentations with DoD FOUO, PII and other protected data to be viewed in a nonsecure location. By disabling this policy, the user will not have the ability to deliver a presentation online.

Solution

Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2013 -> Present Online -> ‘Remove Office Presentation Service from the list of online presentation services in PowerPoint and Word’ to ‘Enabled’.

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-228538r508020_rule
• STIG-ID|DTOO408
• STIG-Legacy|SV-53207
• STIG-Legacy|V-40875
• Vuln-ID|V-228538

Source

• Tenable.com/audits