Checklist Summary:

This Microsoft Office Technology Overview, along with the associated Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG), provides the technical security policies, requirements, and implementation details for applying security concepts to Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) applications. The nearly universal presence of systems on the desktops of all levels of staff provides tremendous opportunities for office automation, communication, data sharing, and collaboration. Unfortunately, this presence also brings about dependence and vulnerabilities. Malicious and mischievous forces have attempted to take advantage of the vulnerabilities and dependencies to disrupt the work processes of the Government. Compounding this problem is the fact that the vendors of software applications have not expended sufficient effort to provide strong security in their applications. Where applications do offer security options, the default settings typically do not provide a strong security posture.

Checklist Role:

• Office Software

Known Issues:

Not provided.

Target Audience:

Developed for the DOD. This checklist has been created for IT professionals, particularly Windows system administrators and information security personnel. The document assumes that the reader has experience installing and administering applications on Windows-based systems in domain or standalone configurations.

Target Operational Environment:

• Managed
• Specialized Security-Limited Functionality (SSLF)

Testing Information:

Not provided.

Regulatory Compliance:

DOD Directive 8500.

Comments/Warnings/Miscellaneous:

All Microsoft Office 2007 users who are consuming the provided SCAP content must first run the Microsoft Office System 2007 SCAP Content which provides generic Office checks. Then the user should run the SCAP bundle for each Microsoft Office product running on the user's systems.

Disclaimer:

Not provided.

Product Support:

disa.stig_spt@mail.mil

Point of Contact:

disa.stig_spt@mail.mil

Sponsor:

Not provided.

Licensing:

Not provided.

Change History:

Added Version 4, Release 14 Overview - 05 August 2015
Version 4, Release 11 - 04/25/2014
Version 4, Release 10 - 01/24/2014
Version 4, Release 9 - 10/26/2012
Version 4, Release 8 - 07/27/2012
Version 4, Release 7 - 04/27/2012
Version 4, Release 6 - 01/26/2012
Version 4, Release 5 - 07/29/2011
Version 4, Release 4 - 04/29/2011
Version 4, Release 3 - 01/28/2011
Version 4, Release 2 - 08/27/2010
Version 4, Release 1 - 12/09/2009
Version 4, Release 12 - 30 October 2014
Updated status to "Final" - 07 January 2015
Updated "Point of Contact" - 07 January 2015
Changed status from "under review" to "final" - 11 September 2015
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Updated URL to reflect change to the DISA website - http --> https
"Updated URLs - 6/6/19
Sunset per DISA - 6/6/19"
updated URLs - 9/11/19

Dependency/Requirements:

URL	Description
https://scap.nist.gov/revision/1.0/index.html#tools	This is a link to the SCAP Content Validation Tool designed to validate SCAP 1.0 source content.

References:

Reference URL	Description

NIST checklist record last modified on 09/11/2019