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MS Exchange 2013 Edge Transport Server Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Exchange Receive connectors must control the number of recipients per message.

    Email system availability depends in part on best practice strategies for setting tuning configurations. This configuration controls the maximum number of recipients who will receive a copy of a ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Exchange Sender filter must block unaccepted domains.

    Spam origination sites and other sources of suspected email-borne malware have the ability to corrupt, compromise, or otherwise limit availability of email servers. Limiting exposure to unfiltered ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Exchange Attachment filtering must remove undesirable attachments by file type.

    By performing filtering at the perimeter, up to 90 percent of spam, malware, and other undesirable messages are eliminated from the message stream rather than admitting them into the mail server en...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Exchange Spam Evaluation filter must be enabled.

    By performing filtering at the perimeter, up to 90 percent of spam, malware, and other undesirable messages may be eliminated from the transport message stream, preventing their entry into the Exch...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Exchange internal Receive connectors must not allow anonymous connections.

    This control is used to limit the servers that may use this server as a relay. If a Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) sender does not have a direct connection to the Internet (for example, an a...
    Rule Medium Severity

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