STIGUI
V-277100CAT II — Medium severitySV-277100r1148752_rule

The macOS system must disable Siri.

Rule version APPL-26-002020 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

Support for Siri is nonessential and must be disabled.

The information system must be configured to provide only essential capabilities. Enabling any service increases the attack surface for an intruder. By disabling unnecessary services, the attack surface is minimized.

Check

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

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

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

Fix

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

Identifiers

Group ID
V-277100
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-277100r1148752_rule
Check ID
C-81255r1148750_chk
Fix ID
F-81160r1148751_fix