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Microsoft Outlook 2013 STIG

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  • DTOO264 - Clear signed messages

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  • Send all signed messages as clear signed messages must be configured.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When users sign email messages with their signing certificate and send them, Outlook uses the sender's private key to encrypt...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • DTOO247 - Custom OOM Action Exe. Prompt

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  • Custom Outlook Object Model (OOM) action execution prompts must be configured.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Custom actions add functionality to Outlook that can be triggered as part of a rule. Among other possible features, custom ac...
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  • DTOO265 - Signature Warnings

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  • RSS feed synchronization with Common Feed List must be disallowed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Common Feed list is a hierarchical set of RSS feeds to which clients such as Outlook 2013, the Feeds list in Internet Exp...
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  • DTOO223 - Trust EMail from Contacts

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  • Trust EMail from senders in receivers contact list must be enforced.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Email addresses in users' Contacts list are treated as safe senders for purposes of filtering junk email. If this configurati...
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  • DTOO282 - RSS Feeds

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  • RSS Feeds must be disallowed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Users can subscribe to RSS feeds from within Outlook and read RSS items like email messages. If an organization has policies ...
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  • DTOO231 - Unicode use when dragging Email

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  • Dragging Unicode email messages to file system must be disallowed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When users drag email messages from Outlook to a Windows Explorer window or to their Desktop, Outlook creates an .msg file us...
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  • DTOO286 - Disable User Entries to Server list

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  • User Entries to Server List must be disallowed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If users are able to manually enter the addresses of servers that are not approved by the organization, they could use server...
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  • DTOO126 - Add-on Management

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  • Add-on Management functionality must be allowed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Internet Explorer add-ons are pieces of code, run in Internet Explorer, to provide additional functionality. Rogue add-ons ma...
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  • DTOO209 - Zone Elevation Protection

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  • Protection from zone elevation must be enforced.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Internet Explorer places restrictions on each web page users can use the browser to open. Web pages on a user's local compute...
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  • DTOO211 - Restrict ActiveX Install

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  • ActiveX installs must be configured for proper restrictions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Microsoft ActiveX controls allow unmanaged, unprotected code to run on the user computers. ActiveX controls do not run within...
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The content of the drawer really is up to you. It could have form fields, definition lists, text lists, labels, charts, progress bars, etc. Spacing recommendation is 24px margins. You can put tabs in here, and can also make the drawer scrollable.

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