Microsoft Outlook 2010 STIG
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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Dragging Unicode eMail messages to file system must be disallowed.
<VulnDiscussion>When users drag e-mail messages from Outlook to a Windows Explorer window or to their Desktop, Outlook creates a .msg file us...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO286 - Disable User Entries to Server list
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
User Entries to Server List must be disallowed.
<VulnDiscussion>If users are able to manually enter the addresses of servers that are not approved by the organization, they could use server...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO126 - Add-on Management
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Add-on Management functionality must be allowed.
<VulnDiscussion>Internet Explorer add-ons are pieces of code, run in Internet Explorer, to provide additional functionality. Rogue add-ons ma...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO209 - Zone Elevation Protection
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Protection from zone elevation must be enforced.
<VulnDiscussion>Internet Explorer places restrictions on each web page users can use the browser to open. Web pages on a user's local compute...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO211 - Restrict ActiveX Install
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
ActiveX Installs must be configured for proper restriction.
<VulnDiscussion>Microsoft ActiveX controls allow unmanaged, unprotected code to run on the user computers. ActiveX controls do not run within...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO132 - Restrict File Download
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
File Downloads must be configured for proper restrictions.
<VulnDiscussion>Disabling this setting allows websites to present file download prompts via code without the user specifically initiating the...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO124 - Scripted Window Security
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Scripted Window Security must be enforced.
<VulnDiscussion>Malicious websites often try to confuse or trick users into giving a site permission to perform an action allowing the site t...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO128 - Data Execution Prevention
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Data Execution Prevention must be enforced.
<VulnDiscussion>Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a set of hardware and software technologies performing additional checks on memory to help...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO313 - Automatically download enclosures
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Automatically downloading enclosures on RSS must be disallowed.
<VulnDiscussion>This policy setting allows you to control whether Outlook automatically downloads enclosures on RSS items. </VulnDiscussio...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO344 - Outlook Rich Text options
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Outlook Rich Text options must be set for converting to plain text format.
<VulnDiscussion>Outlook automatically converts RTF formatted messages that are sent over the Internet to HTML format, so that the message for...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO314 - Set message format
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group
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