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V-259502CAT II — Medium severitySV-259502r958478_rule

The macOS system must disable iCloud Document synchronization.

Rule version APPL-14-002041 · STIG v2 · 2024-12-04

Discussion

The macOS built-in iCloud document synchronization service must be disabled to prevent organizational data from being synchronized to personal or nonapproved storage.

Apple's iCloud service does not provide an organization with enough control over the storage and access of data and, therefore, automated document synchronization must be controlled by an organization approved service.

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable iCloud Document synchronization with the following command:

/usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript << EOS $.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.applicationaccess')\ .objectForKey('allowCloudDocumentSync').js EOS

If the result is not "false", this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the macOS system to disable iCloud Document synchronization by installing the "com.apple.applicationaccess" configuration profile.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-259502
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-259502r958478_rule
Check ID
C-63241r941126_chk
Fix ID
F-63149r941127_fix