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Microsoft Exchange 2019 Edge Server Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Exchange send connector connections count must be limited.

    <VulnDiscussion>This setting controls the maximum number of simultaneous outbound connections allowed for a given SMTP Connector and can be u...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000247

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Exchange message size restrictions must be controlled on Send connectors.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Email system availability depends in part on best practice strategies for setting tuning configurations. For message size res...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000247

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Exchange send connectors delivery retries must be controlled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This setting controls the rate at which delivery attempts from the home domain are retried and user notifications are issued ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000247

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Exchange receive connectors must be clearly named.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;For receive connectors, unclear naming as to direction and purpose increases risk that messages may not flow as intended, tro...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000247

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Exchange receive connectors must control the number of recipients chunked on a single message.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Email system availability depends in part on best practice strategies for setting tuning configurations. For message size res...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000247

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Exchange internet receive connector connections count must be set to default.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Email system availability depends in part on best practice strategies for setting tuning configurations. This configuration c...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000247

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Exchange Message size restrictions must be controlled on receive connectors.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Email system availability depends in part on best practices strategies for setting tuning configurations. For message size re...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000261

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Active hyperlinks in messages from non .mil domains must be rendered unclickable.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Active hyperlinks within an email are susceptible to attacks of malicious software or malware. The hyperlink could lead to a ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000261

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Exchange messages with a blank sender field must be rejected.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By performing filtering at the perimeter, up to 90 percent of spam, malware, and other undesirable messages are eliminated fr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000261

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Exchange messages with a blank sender field must be filtered.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By performing filtering at the perimeter, up to 90 percent of spam, malware, and other undesirable messages are eliminated fr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000261

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Exchange filtered messages must be archived.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By performing filtering at the perimeter, up to 90 percent of spam, malware, and other undesirable messages are eliminated fr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000261

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Exchange sender filter must block unaccepted domains.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Spam origination sites and other sources of suspected email-borne malware have the ability to corrupt, compromise, or otherwi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000261

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Exchange nonexistent recipients must not be blocked.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Spam originators, in an effort to refine mailing lists, sometimes use a technique where they first create fictitious names an...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000261

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Exchange Sender Reputation filter must be enabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By performing filtering at the perimeter, up to 90 percent of spam, malware, and other undesirable messages are eliminated fr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000261

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Exchange Sender Reputation filter must identify the spam block level.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By performing filtering at the perimeter, up to 90 percent of spam, malware, and other undesirable messages are eliminated fr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000261

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Exchange Attachment filtering must remove undesirable attachments by file type.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By performing filtering at the perimeter, up to 90 percent of spam, malware, and other undesirable messages are eliminated fr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000261

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Exchange Spam Evaluation filter must be enabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By performing filtering at the perimeter, up to 90 percent of spam, malware, and other undesirable messages may be eliminated...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000261

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Exchange Block List service provider must be identified.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Block List filtering is a sanitization process performed on email messages prior to their arrival at the destination mailbox....
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000261

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Exchange Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Sender filter must be enabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Email system availability depends in part on best practices strategies for setting tuning configurations. Careful tuning redu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Exchange Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) IP Allow List Connection filter must be enabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Email system availability depends in part on best practice strategies for setting tuning configurations. Careful tuning reduc...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Exchange messages with a malformed From address must be rejected.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Sender Identification (SID) is an email anti-spam sanitization process. Sender ID uses DNS MX record lookups to verify the Si...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000261

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Exchange Recipient filter must be enabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Email system availability depends in part on best practice strategies for setting tuning configurations. Careful tuning reduc...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000261

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Exchange tarpitting interval must be set.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Tarpitting is the practice of artificially delaying server responses for specific Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) commun...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000261

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Exchange internal Receive connectors must not allow anonymous connections.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This control is used to limit the servers that may use this server as a relay. If a Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) sen...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000261

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Exchange Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) IP Allow List entries must be empty.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Email system availability depends in part on best practice strategies for setting tuning configurations. Careful tuning reduc...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000261

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • SRG-APP-000261

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Exchange must have anti-spam filtering installed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Originators of spam messages are constantly changing their techniques to defeat spam countermeasures; therefore, spam softwar...
    Rule Medium Severity

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