EvidenceSheet
ACSC Essential Eight Maturity Model (November 2023) · Restrict Microsoft Office macros

MACRO-ISM-1487 Only privileged users responsible for checking that Microsoft Office macros are free of malicious code can…

Only privileged users responsible for checking that Microsoft Office macros are free of malicious code can write to and modify content within Trusted Locations. Required at Maturity Level Three of the Restrict Microsoft Office macros mitigation strategy (Appendix C); ISM control ISM-1487 in ASD's Essential Eight to ISM mapping (December 2023).

Source: ACSC Essential Eight Maturity Model (November 2023), MACRO-ISM-1487. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open ACSC Essential Eight Maturity Model (November 2023) in the compliance library.

Each row is an ISM control the maturity model requires, with the maturity levels named in its text. Pick your target maturity level and use the rows for it.

2
artefacts
2
held by a system
0
at each review
easy
to go live
Identity provider / directory
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

  • Access control lists on Trusted Locations restricting write access to responsible privileged users · Identity provider / directory
  • List of those users · Document repository

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

none for this control

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

none for this control

First move

Automate the pull from your Identity provider / directory. Scheduled export of users, roles and MFA state from the directory; access-review completion pulled from the IdP, not a spreadsheet.

Common gaps auditors find

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BACKUP-ISM-1814 Unprivileged user accounts are prevented from modifying and deleting backups · MACRO-ISM-1488 Microsoft Office macros in files originating from the internet are blocked