Microsoft Outlook 2013 STIG
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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Internet calendar integration in Outlook must be disabled.
The Internet Calendar feature in Outlook enables users to publish calendars online (using the webcal:// protocol) and subscribe to calendars that others have published. When users subscribe to an I...Rule Medium Severity -
Attachments using generated name for secure temporary folders must be configured.
The Secure Temporary Files folder is used to store attachments when they are opened in email. By default, Outlook generates a random name for the Secure Temporary Files folder and saves it in the T...Rule Medium Severity -
Outlook must be enforced as the default email, calendar, and contacts program.
Outlook is made the default program for email, contacts, and calendar services when it is installed, although users can designate other programs as the default programs for these services. If anoth...Rule Medium Severity -
Plain Text Options for outbound email must be configured.
If outgoing mail is formatted in certain ways, for example, if attachments are encoded in UUENCODE format, attackers might manipulate the messages for their own purposes. If UUENCODE formatting is ...Rule Medium Severity -
Publishing to a Web Distributed and Authoring (DAV) server must be prevented.
Outlook users can share their calendars with others by publishing them to a server that supports the World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol. Unlike the Microsoft Offi...Rule Medium Severity -
Level 1 file extensions must be blocked and not removed.
Malicious code is often spread through e-mail. Some viruses have the ability to send copies of themselves to other people in the victim's Address Book or Contacts list, and such potentially harmful...Rule Medium Severity -
Level 2 file extensions must be blocked and not removed.
Malicious code is often spread through email. Some viruses have the ability to send copies of themselves to other people in the victim's Address Book or Contacts list, and such potentially harmful ...Rule Medium Severity -
Level of calendar details that a user can publish must be restricted.
Outlook users can share their calendars with selected others by publishing them to the Microsoft Office Outlook Calendar Sharing Service. Users can choose from three levels of detail: * Availabilit...Rule Medium Severity -
Run in FIPS compliant mode must be enforced.
Outlook can run in a mode that complies with Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), a set of standards published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for use by no...Rule Medium Severity -
S/Mime interoperability with external clients for message handling must be configured.
In some situations, administrators might wish to use an external program, such as an add-in, to handle S/MIME message decryption. If your organization works with encrypted messages that the decrypt...Rule Medium Severity
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