macOS 15 - Sequoia

The macOS system must disable Siri Setup during Setup Assistant

STIG ID: APPL-15-002039 | SRG: SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049 | Severity: Medium | CCI: CCI-000381 | Vulnerability ID: V-268500

Description

The prompt for Siri during Setup Assistant must be disabled.Organizations must apply organizationwide configuration settings. The macOS Siri Assistant Setup prompt guides new users through enabling their own specific Siri settings. This is not essential and, therefore, must be disabled to prevent the risk of individuals electing Siri settings with the potential to override organizationwide settings.

Check

C-268500r1034440_chk

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable Siri Setup during Setup Assistant with the following command:/usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript << EOS$.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.SetupAssistant.managed')\.objectForKey('SkipSiriSetup').jsEOSIf the result is not "true", this is a finding.

Fix

F-72431r1034439_fix

Configure the macOS system to disable Siri Setup during Setup Assistant by installing the "com.apple.SetupAssistant.managed" configuration profile.