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macOS APPL-26-002064

DISA STIG APPL-26-002064 (CAT I): The macOS system must enable gatekeeper.

DISA STIG recommends

APPL-26-002064 CAT I

The macOS system must enable gatekeeper.

NIST SP 800-53: CM-5, CM-14, SI-3, SI-7(1), SI-7(15)

mSCP rule os_gatekeeper_enable · in 800-171, 800-53r5_high, 800-53r5_low, 800-53r5_moderate, DISA-STIG, all_rules, cis_lvl1, cis_lvl2…

Configuration profile

com.apple.systempolicy.control
  EnableAssessment = true
Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to enable gatekeeper with the following command: /usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript << EOS $.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.systempolicy.control')\ .objectForKey('EnableAssessment').js EOS If the result is not "true", this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the macOS system to enable gatekeeper by installing the "com.apple.systempolicy.control" configuration profile.

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