Office productivity suites are hardened using ASD and vendor hardening guidance, with the most restrictive guidance taking precedence when conflicts occur.
Topic
Hardening user application configurations
Applicable to
all
History
Dec 2023
Office productivity suites are hardened using ASD and vendor hardening guidance, with the most restrictive guidance taking precedence when conflicts occur.
The existing control relating to office productivity suites being hardened using ASD and vendor hardening guidance was amended to recommend that the most restrictive guidance take precedence when conflicts occur.
Sep 2023
Office productivity suites are hardened using ASD and vendor hardening guidance.
References to ‘ACSC’ were replaced with ‘ASD’.
Sep 2023
Office productivity suites are hardened using ASD and vendor hardening guidance.
The existing control covering the hardening of office productivity suites was amended to recommend the implementation of both ACSC and vendor hardening guidance, noting that ACSC hardening guidance should generally be given preference when conflicting guidance arises.
Jun 2023
ACSC or vendor hardening guidance for office productivity suites is implemented.
The existing control relating to ACSC or vendor hardening guidance being implemented for web browsers, Microsoft Office and PDF software was split into three separate controls to facilitate independent implementation and assessment in accordance with the Essential Eight Maturity Model. [ISM-1412, ISM-1859, ISM-1860]