Details

Bonjour multicast advertising _MUST_ be disabled to prevent the system from broadcasting its presence and available services over network interfaces.

Solution

This is implemented by a Configuration Profile.

mobileconfig profile info:

com.apple.mDNSResponder:
NoMulticastAdvertisements:
True

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://github.com/usnistgov/macos_security

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-7
• 800-53|CM-7(1)
• 800-53|CM-7a.
• CCE|CCE-90908-5, CCI|CCI-000381

Source

• Tenable.com/audits