DTOO415 - The ability of the Office Telemetry Agent to periodically upload telemetry data to a shared folder must be disabled.

Information

Office Telemetry is a new compatibility monitoring framework. When an Office document or solution is loaded, used, closed, or raises an error in certain Office 2013 applications, the Office Telemetry application adds a record about the event to a local data store. Each record includes a description of the problem and a link to more information. Inventory and usage data is also tracked. The actual logging capability will be enabled, but this policy allows that data to be uploaded to a remote location which, if enabled, could pass information about the internal network and configuration to that remote site.

Solution

Set the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Office 2013 >> Telemetry Dashboard >> 'Turn on data uploading for Office Telemetry Agent' to 'Disabled'.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_OfficeSystem_2013_V2R2_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-7a., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000381, Rule-ID|SV-228541r960963_rule, STIG-ID|DTOO415, STIG-Legacy|SV-53217, STIG-Legacy|V-40885, Vuln-ID|V-228541

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: 26314331eee86c30ba739e716ba15dc83b190bc1796f29f2a2a4c2f19fc180dc