III - Administrative Public
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-APP-000112
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Enabling IE Bind to Object functionality must be present.
Internet Explorer performs a number of safety checks before initializing an ActiveX control. It will not initialize a control if the kill bit for the control is set in the registry, or if the secur...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000210
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Saved from URL mark to assure Internet zone processing must be enforced.
Typically, when Internet Explorer loads a web page from a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) share that contains a Mark of the Web (MOTW) comment, indicating the page was saved from a site on the In...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000210
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Navigation to URLs embedded in Office products must be blocked.
To protect users from attacks, Internet Explorer usually does not attempt to load malformed URLs. This functionality can be controlled separately for instances of Internet Explorer spawned by Offic...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000112
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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 -
SRG-APP-000207
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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 -
SRG-APP-000207
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Links that invoke instances of Internet Explorer from within an Office product must be blocked.
The Pop-up Blocker feature in Internet Explorer can be used to block most unwanted pop-up and pop-under windows from appearing. This functionality can be controlled separately for instances of Inte...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000209
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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 without...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000112
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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 -
SRG-APP-000488
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ActiveX Installs must be configured for proper restriction.
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 -
SRG-APP-000516
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Publishing calendars to Office Online must be prevented.
This policy setting controls whether Outlook users can publish their calendars to the Office.com Calendar Sharing Service. If you enable this policy setting, Outlook users cannot publish their cale...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
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Publishing to a Web Distributed and Authoring (DAV) server must be prevented.
This policy setting controls whether Outlook users can publish their calendars to a DAV server. If you enable this policy setting, Outlook users cannot publish their calendars to a DAV server. If y...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
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Level of calendar details that a user can publish must be restricted.
This policy setting controls the level of calendar details that Outlook users can publish to the Microsoft Outlook Calendar Sharing Service. If you enable this policy setting, you can choose from t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
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Access restriction settings for published calendars must be configured.
This policy setting determines what restrictions apply to users who publish their calendars on Office.com or third-party World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) servers. If you...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000210
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Outlook Object Model scripts must be disallowed to run for shared folders.
This policy setting controls whether Outlook executes scripts associated with custom forms or folder home pages for shared folders. If you enable this policy setting, Outlook cannot execute any scr...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000210
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Outlook Object Model scripts must be disallowed to run for public folders.
This policy setting controls whether Outlook executes scripts that are associated with custom forms or folder home pages for public folders. If you enable this policy setting, Outlook cannot execut...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000210
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ActiveX One-Off forms must be configured.
By default, third-party ActiveX controls are not allowed to run in one-off forms in Outlook. You can change this behavior so that Safe Controls (Microsoft Forms 2.0 controls and the Outlook Recipie...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000210
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The Add-In Trust Level must be configured.
All installed trusted COM addins can be trusted. Exchange Settings for the addins still override if present and this option is selected.Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000400
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The remember password for internet e-mail accounts must be disabled.
Use this option to hide your user's ability to cache passwords locally in the computer's registry. When configured, this policy will hide the 'Remember Password' checkbox and not allow users to hav...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000210
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Users customizing attachment security settings must be prevented.
This policy setting prevents users from overriding the set of attachments blocked by Outlook. If you enable this policy setting users will be prevented from overriding the set of attachments blocke...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
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Outlook Security Mode must be configured to use Group Policy settings.
This policy setting controls which set of security settings are enforced in Outlook. If you enable this policy setting, you can choose from four options for enforcing Outlook security settings: * O...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000207
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The ability to display level 1 attachments must be disallowed.
This policy setting controls whether Outlook blocks potentially dangerous attachments designated Level 1. Outlook uses two levels of security to restrict users' access to files attached to e-mail m...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000207
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Level 1 file extensions must be blocked and not removed.
This policy setting controls which types of attachments (determined by file extension) Outlook prevents from being delivered. Outlook uses two levels of security to restrict users' access to files ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000207
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Level 2 file extensions must be blocked and not removed.
This policy setting controls which types of attachments (determined by file extension) must be saved to disk before users can open them. Files with specific extensions can be categorized as Level ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000210
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Scripts in One-Off Outlook forms must be disallowed.
This policy setting controls whether scripts can run in Outlook forms in which the script and layout are contained within the message. If you enable this policy setting, scripts can run in one-off ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000488
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Custom Outlook Object Model (OOM) action execution prompts must be configured.
This policy setting controls whether Outlook prompts users before executing a custom action. Custom actions add functionality to Outlook that can be triggered as part of a rule. Among other possibl...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.