The ability of the Office Telemetry Agent to periodically upload telemetry data to a shared folder must be disabled.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-40885	DTOO415	SV-53217r5_rule		Medium

Description
Office Telemetry is a new compatibility monitoring framework. When an Office document or solution is loaded, used, closed, or raises an error in certain Office 2013 applications, the Office Telemetry application adds a record about the event to a local data store. Each record includes a description of the problem and a link to more information. Inventory and usage data is also tracked. The actual logging capability will be enabled, but this policy allows that data to be uploaded to a remote location which, if enabled, could pass information about the internal network and configuration to that remote site.

Description

Office Telemetry is a new compatibility monitoring framework. When an Office document or solution is loaded, used, closed, or raises an error in certain Office 2013 applications, the Office Telemetry application adds a record about the event to a local data store. Each record includes a description of the problem and a link to more information. Inventory and usage data is also tracked. The actual logging capability will be enabled, but this policy allows that data to be uploaded to a remote location which, if enabled, could pass information about the internal network and configuration to that remote site.

STIG	Date
Microsoft Office System 2013 STIG	2019-09-30

Details

Check Text ( C-47524r5_chk )
Verify the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Office 2013 >> Telemetry Dashboard >> "Turn on data uploading for Office Telemetry Agent" is set to "Disabled". Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\osm If the value “enableupload” is REG_DWORD = 0, this is not a finding.

Fix Text (F-46144r2_fix)
Set the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Office 2013 >> Telemetry Dashboard >> "Turn on data uploading for Office Telemetry Agent" to "Disabled".