II - Mission Support Sensitive
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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DTOO124 - Scripted Window Security
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Scripted Window Security must be enforced.
Malicious websites often try to confuse or trick users into giving a site permission to perform an action allowing the site to take control of the users' computers in some manner. Disabling or not ...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO313 - Automatically download enclosures
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Automatically downloading enclosures on RSS must be disallowed.
This policy setting controls Outlook's ability to automatically download enclosures on RSS items.Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO344 - Outlook Rich Text options
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Outlook Rich Text options must be set for converting to plain text format.
Outlook automatically converts RTF formatted messages that are sent over the Internet to HTML format, so that the message formatting is maintained and attachments are received. This setting control...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO314 - Set message format
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Default message format must be set to use Plain Text.
Outlook uses HTML as the default email format. HTML format poses a security risk by embedding information into the email itself, which could allow for release of sensitive information. If a user at...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO315 - Outlook Security settings
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Outlook must be configured not to prompt users to choose security settings if default settings fail.
This policy prompts the user to choose security settings if default settings fail, but allowing users to select their own security settings would result in inconsistent enforcement in the organizat...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO316 - Minimum encryption settings
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Outlook minimum encryption key length settings must be set.
This setting allows the minimum key length for an encrypted email message to be configured.Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO317 - Signed/encrypted messages
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Replies or forwards to signed/encrypted messages must be signed/encrypted.
This setting controls whether replies and forwards to signed/encrypted mail should also be signed/encrypted.Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO320 - Check e-mail address against certificate
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Check e-mail addresses against addresses of certificates being used must be disallowed.
This policy setting controls whether Outlook verifies the user's email address with the address associated with the certificate used for signing.Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO424 - Disable weather bar in Outlook
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The use of the weather bar in Outlook must be disabled
The Weather Bar in Outlook displays weather conditions and forecast for a geographic location. By default, Outlook uses weather data provided by MSN Weather. The Weather Bar supports third-party we...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO425 - Disable Internet and network path into hyperlinks
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Text in Outlook that represents Internet and network paths must not be automatically turned into hyperlinks.
The ability of Outlook to automatically turn text that represents Internet and network paths into hyperlinks would allow users to click on those hyperlinks in email message and access malicious or ...Rule Medium Severity
Node 2
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.