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macOS APPL-26-002053

DISA STIG APPL-26-002053 (CAT II): The macOS system must disable the system settings pane for Siri.

DISA STIG recommends

APPL-26-002053 CAT II

The macOS system must disable the system settings pane for Siri.

NIST SP 800-53: CM-7, CM-7(1), CM-7(5)

mSCP rule system_settings_siri_settings_disable · in 800-53r5_high, 800-53r5_low, 800-53r5_moderate, DISA-STIG, all_rules, cisv8, cmmc_lvl2, cnssi-1253_high…

Configuration profile

com.apple.systempreferences
  DisabledSystemSettings = ["com.apple.Siri-Settings.extension"]
Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable the system settings pane for Siri with the following command: /usr/bin/profiles show -output stdout-xml | /usr/bin/xmllint --xpath '//key[text()="DisabledSystemSettings"]/following-sibling::*[1]' - | /usr/bin/grep -c com.apple.Siri-Settings.extension If the result is not "1", this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the macOS system to disable the system settings pane for Siri by installing the "com.apple.systempreferences" configuration profile.

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