The macOS system must disable Privacy Setup services during Setup Assistant.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-259497	SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049	APPL-14-002036	SV-259497r958478_rule	2024-12-04	2

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

Description

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

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

✔️ Fix
Configure the macOS system to disable Privacy Setup services during Setup Assistant by installing the "com.apple.SetupAssistant.managed" configuration profile.