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Document threats
If your organization allows users to send and receive documents over the Internet, or if you believe
there are potential risks to users' documents from any unauthorized source, you should take the
necessary precautions against document threats. When intruders or attackers gain access to
proprietary information, it might result in the loss of confidentiality or document data. Users can
mitigate document threats if they use the password protection feature to encrypt documents in
Excel 2008 and Word 2008.
Note There are no administrative settings that enable you to force users to encrypt documents.
For more information about configuring document protection settings that mitigate document
threats, see Configure document protection settings in Office 2008
in the Office 2008 Security
section.
Code threats
If you connect to the Internet or allow others to use your computer, it is important that you take
the necessary steps to protect your system from harm, including attacks from malicious software.
Code and application threats pose a potential risk if your organization allows users to:
• Run macros or add-ins.
• Receive e-mail attachments.
• Share documents across a public network, such as the Internet.
• Open documents from sources outside your organization, such as clients, vendors, or
partners.
Excel 2008, Word 2008, and Entourage 2008 allow the use of strong encryption to help protect the
contents of documents so that they're unreadable by unauthorized people.
For information about configuring security settings for macros, see Configure security settings for
macros in Excel 2008 in the Office 2008 Security section.