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III - Administrative Public

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • DTOO265 - Signature Warnings

    Group
  • Warning about invalid signatures must be enforced.

    If users open email messages that include invalid digital signatures, Outlook displays a warning dialog box. Users can decide whether they want to be warned about invalid signatures in the future. ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO281 - Sync RSS Feeds w/Common List

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

    The Common Feed list is a hierarchical set of RSS feeds to which clients such as Outlook 2013, the Feeds list in Internet Explorer, and the Feed Headlines Sidebar gadget in Windows Vista can subscr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO223 - Trust EMail from Contacts

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

    Email addresses in users' Contacts list are treated as safe senders for purposes of filtering junk email. If this configuration is changed, email from users' Contacts might be misclassified as junk...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO282 - RSS Feeds

    Group
  • RSS Feeds must be disallowed.

    Users can subscribe to RSS feeds from within Outlook and read RSS items like email messages. If an organization has policies that govern the use of external resources such as RSS feeds, allowing us...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO231 - Unicode use when dragging Email

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

    When users drag email messages from Outlook to a Windows Explorer window or to their Desktop, Outlook creates an .msg file using the native character encoding format for the configured locale (the ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO286 - Disable User Entries to Server list

    Group
  • User Entries to Server List must be disallowed.

    If users are able to manually enter the addresses of servers that are not approved by the organization, they could use servers that do not meet your organization's information security requirements...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO126 - Add-on Management

    Group
  • Add-on Management functionality must be allowed.

    Internet Explorer add-ons are pieces of code, run in Internet Explorer, to provide additional functionality. Rogue add-ons may contain viruses or other malicious code. Disabling or not configuring ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO209 - Zone Elevation Protection

    Group
  • Protection from zone elevation must be enforced.

    Internet Explorer places restrictions on each web page users can use the browser to open. Web pages on a user's local computer have the fewest security restrictions and reside in the Local Machine ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO211 - Restrict ActiveX Install

    Group
  • ActiveX installs must be configured for proper restrictions.

    Microsoft ActiveX controls allow unmanaged, unprotected code to run on the user computers. ActiveX controls do not run within a protected container in the browser like the other types of HTML or Mi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO132 - Restrict File Download

    Group
  • File Downloads must be configured for proper restrictions.

    Disabling this setting allows websites to present file download prompts via code without the user specifically initiating the download. User preferences may also allow the download to occur withou...
    Rule Medium Severity

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