The macOS system must disable Siri Setup during Setup Assistant.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-259500	APPL-14-002039	SV-259500r958478_rule		Medium

Description
The prompt for Siri during Setup Assistant must be disabled. Organizations must apply organizationwide configuration settings. The macOS Siri Assistant Setup prompt guides new users through enabling their own specific Siri settings; this is not essential and, therefore, must be disabled to prevent against the risk of individuals electing Siri settings with the potential to override organizationwide settings.

Description

The prompt for Siri during Setup Assistant must be disabled. Organizations must apply organizationwide configuration settings. The macOS Siri Assistant Setup prompt guides new users through enabling their own specific Siri settings; this is not essential and, therefore, must be disabled to prevent against the risk of individuals electing Siri settings with the potential to override organizationwide settings.

STIG	Date
Apple macOS 14 (Sonoma) Security Technical Implementation Guide	2024-05-30

Details

Check Text ( C-63239r941120_chk )
Verify the macOS system is configured to disable Siri Setup during Setup Assistant with the following command: /usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript << EOS $.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.SetupAssistant.managed')\ .objectForKey('SkipSiriSetup').js EOS If the result is not "true", this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-63147r941121_fix)
Configure the macOS system to disable Siri Setup during Setup Assistant by installing the "com.apple.SetupAssistant.managed" configuration profile.