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III - Administrative Public

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • Exch-2-727

    Group
  • Receive Connectors must control the number of recipients per message.

    Email system availability depends in part on best practices strategies for setting tuning configurations. This configuration controls the maximum number of recipients who will receive a copy of a...
    Rule Low Severity
  • Exch-2-730

    Group
  • Receive Connectors must control the number of recipients chunked on a single message.

    Email system availability depends in part on best practices strategies for setting tuning configurations. For message size restrictions, multiple places exist to set or override inbound or outbound...
    Rule Low Severity
  • Exch-2-733

    Group
  • Receive Connectors must be clearly named.

    For receive connectors, unclear naming as to direction and purpose increases risk that messages may not flow as intended, troubleshooting efforts may be impaired, or incorrect assumptions may be ma...
    Rule Low Severity
  • Exch-2-736

    Group
  • Auto-forwarding email to remote domains must be disabled or restricted.

    Attackers can use automated messages to determine whether a user account is active, in the office, traveling, and so on. An attacker might use this information to conduct future attacks. Ensure Aut...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Exch-2-739

    Group
  • Tarpitting interval must be set.

    Tarpitting is the practice of artificially delaying server responses for specific SMTP communication patterns that indicate high volumes of SPAM or other unwelcome messages. The intent of tarpittin...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Exch-2-741

    Group
  • Receive Connector Maximum Hop Count must be 60.

    Email system availability depends in part on best practices strategies for setting tuning configurations. This setting controls the maximum number of hops (email servers traversed) a message may ta...
    Rule Low Severity
  • Exch-2-743

    Group
  • Recipient filter must be enabled.

    Email system availability depends in part on best practices strategies for setting tuning configurations. Careful tuning reduces the risk that system or network congestion will contribute to availa...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Exch-2-751

    Group
  • Send Connectors must be clearly named.

    For send connectors, unclear naming as to direction and purpose increases risk that messages may not flow as intended, troubleshooting efforts may be impaired, or incorrect assumptions may be made ...
    Rule Low Severity
  • Exch-2-754

    Group
  • Send Connectors delivery retries must be controlled.

    This setting controls the rate at which delivery attempts from the home domain are retried, user notifications are issued, and notes the expiration time when the message will be discarded. If de...
    Rule Low Severity
  • Exch-2-757

    Group
  • Message size restrictions must be controlled on Send connectors.

    Email system availability depends in part on best practices strategies for setting tuning configurations. For message size restrictions, multiple places exist to set or override inbound or outbound...
    Rule Low Severity

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