Spotlight Panel must be securely configured.

From Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG

Associated with: CCI-000366

SV-65501r1_rule Spotlight Panel must be securely configured.

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To view the folders that are excluded by Spotlight, run the following command: sudo defaults read /.Spotlight-V100/VolumeConfiguration.plist Exclusions If there are no results, or the results don't meet the organizations requirements, this is a finding.

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To add exclusions to the spotlight search, open up System Preferences->Spotlight, and add the folders to the Privacy tab to prevent Spotlight from searching those locations.

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