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Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server STIG

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Mailbox database must not be overwritten by a restore.

    Email system availability depends in part on best practices strategies for setting tuning configurations. Unauthorized or accidental restoration of mailbox data risks data loss or corruption. ...
    Rule Low Severity
  • Exch-1-318

    Group
  • Exch-1-321

    Group
  • Email forwarding must be restricted.

    Auto-forwarded email accounts do not meet the requirement for digital signature and encryption of CUI and PII IAW DoDI 8520.2 (reference ee) and DoD Director for Administration and Management memor...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Exch-2-817

    Group
  • Exch-2-820

    Group
  • The Send Fatal Errors to Microsoft must be disabled.

    Log files help establish a history of activities, and can be useful in detecting attack attempts or determining tuning adjustments to improve availability. This setting enables an automated log e...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Exch-2-823

    Group
  • Administrator audit logging must be enabled.

    Unauthorized or malicious data changes can compromise the integrity and usefulness of the data. Automated attacks or malicious users with elevated privileges have the ability to affect change usi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Exch-1-802

    Group
  • Circular Logging must be disabled.

    Logging provides a history of events performed, and can also provide evidence of tampering or attack. Failure to create and preserve logs adds to the risk that suspicious events may go unnoticed, o...
    Rule Low Severity
  • Exch-2-828

    Group
  • Exchange application directory must be protected from unauthorized access.

    Default product installations may provide more generous access permissions than are necessary to run the application. By examining and tailoring access permissions to more closely provide the leas...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Exch-1-805

    Group
  • Exch-1-808

    Group
  • Message Tracking Logging must be enabled.

    A message tracking log provides a detailed log of all message activity as messages are transferred to and from a computer running Exchange. If events are not recorded it may be difficult or imposs...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Exch-2-831

    Group
  • Exch-2-833

    Group
  • Audit record parameters must be set.

    Log files help establish a history of activities, and can be useful in detecting attack attempts. This item declares the fields that must be available in the audit log file in order to adequately...
    Rule Low Severity
  • Exch-2-839

    Group

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