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.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-238042	DTOO416	SV-238042r650693_rule		Medium

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

Description

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

STIG	Date
Microsoft Office System 2016 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2021-06-23

Details

Check Text ( C-41252r650691_chk )
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". Procedure: Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKCU\software\policies\Microsoft\office\16.0\osm Criteria: If the value enablefileobfuscation is REG_DWORD = 1, this is not a finding.

Check Text ( C-41252r650691_chk )

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".

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

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

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

Fix Text (F-41211r650692_fix)
Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2016 -> Telemetry Dashboard -> "Turn on privacy setting in Office Telemetry Agent" to "Enabled".