STIGUI
V-238042CAT II — Medium severitySV-238042r1047204_rule

The Office Telemetry Agent must be configured to obfuscate the file name, file path, and title of Office documents before uploading telemetry data to the shared folder.

Rule version DTOO416 · STIG v2 · 2024-12-06

Discussion

This policy setting configures Office Telemetry Agent to disguise, or obfuscate, certain file properties that are reported in telemetry data. If this policy setting is enabled, Office Telemetry Agent obfuscates the file name, file path, and title of Office documents before uploading telemetry data to the shared folder. If this policy setting is disabled or not configured, Office Telemetry Agent uploads telemetry data that shows the full file name, file path, and title of all Office documents.

Check

Verify the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Office 2016 >> Telemetry Dashboard >> "Turn on privacy setting in Office Telemetry Agent" is set to "Enabled".

Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key:

HKCU\software\policies\Microsoft\office\16.0\osm

If the value "enablefileobfuscation" is "REG_DWORD = 1", this is not a finding.

Fix

Set the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Office 2016 .> Telemetry Dashboard >> "Turn on privacy settings in Office Telemetry Agent" to "Enabled".

Identifiers

Group ID
V-238042
Group title
SRG-APP-000516
Rule ID
SV-238042r1047204_rule
Check ID
C-41252r1047202_chk
Fix ID
F-41211r1047203_fix