MS Exchange 2010 Edge Transport Server STIG
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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Outbound Connection Timeout must be 10 or less.
Email system availability depends in part on best practices strategies for setting tuning configurations. This configuration controls the number of idle minutes before the connection is dropped. It...Rule Low Severity -
Exch-2-336
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SMTP Sender Filter must be enabled.
Email system availability depends in part on best practices strategies for setting tuning configurations. Careful tuning reduces the risk that system or network congestion will contribute to availa...Rule Medium Severity -
Exch-2-339
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SMTP IP Allow List Connection Filter must be enabled.
Email system availability depends in part on best practices strategies for setting tuning configurations. Careful tuning reduces the risk that system or network congestion will contribute to availa...Rule Medium Severity -
Exch-2-342
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SMTP IP Allow List entries must be empty.
Email system availability depends in part on best practices strategies for setting tuning configurations. Careful tuning reduces the risk that system or network congestion will contribute to availa...Rule Medium Severity -
Exch-2-705
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Exch-2-708
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Internet Receive Connector connections count must be set to default.
Email system availability depends in part on best practices strategies for setting tuning configurations. This configuration controls the maximum number of simultaneous inbound connections allowed ...Rule Low Severity -
Exch-2-710
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Receive Connector timeout must be limited.
Email system availability depends in part on best practices strategies for setting tuning. This configuration controls the number of idle minutes before the connection is dropped. It works in c...Rule Low Severity -
Exch-2-715
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Exch-2-718
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Receive Connectors must control the number of recipients chunked on a single message.
Email system availability depends in part on best practices strategies for setting tuning configurations. For message size restrictions, multiple places exist to set or override inbound or outbound...Rule Low Severity -
Exch-2-733
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Exch-2-721
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External Receive Connectors must be Domain Secure Enabled.
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) connector is used by Exchange to send and receive messages from server to server. There are several controls that work together to provide security between ...Rule Medium Severity -
Exch-2-724
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Internet facing receive connectors must offer TLS before using basic authentication.
Sending unencrypted email over the Internet increases the risk that messages can be intercepted or altered. Transport Layer Security (TLS) is designed to protect confidentiality and data integrity ...Rule Medium Severity
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