Connection verification of permissions must be enforced.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-17731	DTOO201	SV-52750r2_rule		Medium

Description
Users are not required to connect to the network to verify permissions. If users do not need their licenses confirmed when attempting to open Office documents, they might be able to access documents after their licenses have been revoked. Also, it is not possible to log the usage of files with restricted permissions if users' licenses are not confirmed.

STIG	Date
Microsoft Office System 2013 STIG	2018-09-05

Details

Check Text ( C-47079r3_chk )
Verify the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Office 2013 >> Manage Restricted Permissions "Always require users to connect to verify permission" is set to "Enabled". Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following hive: HKEY_Users For every users profile hive under HKEY_Users, navigate to the following key: \Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\common\drm Criteria: If the value “RequireConnection” is REG_DWORD = 1 for every user profile hive, this is not a finding.

Check Text ( C-47079r3_chk )

Verify the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Office 2013 >> Manage Restricted Permissions "Always require users to connect to verify permission" is set to "Enabled".

Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following hive:
HKEY_Users

For every users profile hive under HKEY_Users, navigate to the following key:
\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\common\drm

Criteria: If the value “RequireConnection” is REG_DWORD = 1 for every user profile hive, this is not a finding.

Fix Text (F-45676r1_fix)
Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2013 -> Manage Restricted Permissions "Always require users to connect to verify permission" to "Enabled".