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V-259531CAT II — Medium severitySV-259531r958478_rule

The macOS system must disable dictation.

Rule version APPL-14-002230 · STIG v2 · 2024-12-04

Discussion

Dictation must be disabled on Intel-based Macs as the feature On Device Dictation is only available on Apple Silicon devices.

Check

For Apple Silicon-based systems, this is not applicable.

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable dictation with the following command:

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

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

Fix

Configure the macOS system to disable dictation by installing the "com.apple.applicationaccess" configuration profile.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-259531
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-259531r958478_rule
Check ID
C-63270r941213_chk
Fix ID
F-63178r941214_fix