Details

Enabling ‘Show Bluetooth status in menu bar’ is a security awareness method that helps understand the current state of Bluetooth, including whether it is enabled, Discoverable, what paired devices exist and are currently active.

Solution

In System Preferences: Bluetooth, turn Show Bluetooth Status In Menu Bar on.
Alternatively run the following in the command line:
/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.systemuiserver menuExtras -array-add ‘/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Bluetooth.menu’

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-7b.

Source

• Tenable.com/audits