I - Mission Critical Public
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-APP-000175
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Check for publishers certificate revocation must be enforced.
Check for publisher's certificate revocation options should be enforced to ensure all PKI signed objects are validated. Satisfies: SRG-APP-000605Rule Low Severity -
SRG-APP-000209
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The Download signed ActiveX controls property must be disallowed (Internet zone).
Active X controls can contain potentially malicious code and must only be allowed to be downloaded from trusted sites. Signed code is better than unsigned code in that it may be easier to determine...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000209
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The Download unsigned ActiveX controls property must be disallowed (Internet zone).
Unsigned code is potentially harmful, especially when coming from an untrusted zone. This policy setting allows you to manage whether users may download unsigned ActiveX controls from the zone. If ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000210
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The Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe property must be disallowed (Internet zone).
ActiveX controls that are not marked safe for scripting should not be executed. Although this is not a complete security measure for a control to be marked safe for scripting, if a control is not m...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141
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The Java permissions must be disallowed (Internet zone).
Java applications could contain malicious code; sites located in this security zone are more likely to be hosted by malicious individuals. This policy setting allows you to manage permissions for J...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000039
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Accessing data sources across domains must be disallowed (Internet zone).
The ability to access data zones across domains could cause the user to unknowingly access content hosted on an unauthorized server. Access to data sources across multiple domains must be controlle...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141
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Functionality to drag and drop or copy and paste files must be disallowed (Internet zone).
Content hosted on sites located in the Internet zone are likely to contain malicious payloads and therefore this feature should be blocked for this zone. Drag and drop or copy and paste files must ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141
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Launching programs and files in IFRAME must be disallowed (Internet zone).
This policy setting allows you to manage whether applications may be run and files may be downloaded from an IFRAME reference in the HTML of the pages in this zone. Launching of programs in IFRAME ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000039
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Navigating windows and frames across different domains must be disallowed (Internet zone).
Frames that navigate across different domains are a security concern, because the user may think they are accessing pages on one site while they are actually accessing pages on another site. It is ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000231
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Userdata persistence must be disallowed (Internet zone).
Userdata persistence must have a level of protection based upon the site being accessed. It is possible for sites hosting malicious content to exploit this feature as part of an attack against visi...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141
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Clipboard operations via script must be disallowed (Internet zone).
A malicious script could use the clipboard in an undesirable manner, for example, if the user had recently copied confidential information to the clipboard while editing a document, a malicious scr...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000219
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Logon options must be configured to prompt (Internet zone).
Users could submit credentials to servers operated by malicious individuals who could then attempt to connect to legitimate servers with those captured credentials. Care must be taken with user cre...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141
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Java permissions must be configured with High Safety (Intranet zone).
Java applications could contain malicious code. This policy setting allows you to manage permissions for Java applets. If you enable this policy setting, options can be chosen from the drop-down bo...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000207
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Anti-Malware programs against ActiveX controls must be run for the Intranet zone.
This policy setting determines whether Internet Explorer runs Anti-Malware programs against ActiveX controls, to check if they're safe to load on pages. If you enable this policy setting, Inte...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141
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Java permissions must be configured with High Safety (Trusted Sites zone).
Java applications could contain malicious code. This policy setting allows you to manage permissions for Java applets. If you enable this policy setting, options can be chosen from the drop-down bo...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000207
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Anti-Malware programs against ActiveX controls must be run for the Trusted Sites zone.
This policy setting determines whether Internet Explorer runs Anti-Malware programs against ActiveX controls, to check if they're safe to load on pages. If you enable this policy setting, Inte...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000039
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Dragging of content from different domains within a window must be disallowed (Internet zone).
This policy setting allows you to set options for dragging content from one domain to a different domain when the source and destination are in the same window. If you enable this policy setting, u...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000039
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Dragging of content from different domains across windows must be disallowed (Restricted Sites zone).
This policy setting allows you to set options for dragging content from one domain to a different domain when the source and destination are in different windows. If you enable this policy setting,...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000112
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Internet Explorer Processes Restrict ActiveX Install must be enforced (Explorer).
Users often choose to install software such as ActiveX controls that are not permitted by their organization's security policy. Such software can pose significant security and privacy risks to netw...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000112
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Internet Explorer Processes Restrict ActiveX Install must be enforced (iexplore).
Users often choose to install software such as ActiveX controls that are not permitted by their organization's security policy. Such software can pose significant security and privacy risks to netw...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000039
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Dragging of content from different domains within a window must be disallowed (Restricted Sites zone).
This policy setting allows you to set options for dragging content from one domain to a different domain when the source and destination are in the same window. If you enable this policy setting, u...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000207
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Anti-Malware programs against ActiveX controls must be run for the Internet zone.
This policy setting determines whether Internet Explorer runs Anti-Malware programs against ActiveX controls, to check if they're safe to load on pages. If you enable this policy setting, Inte...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000207
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Anti-Malware programs against ActiveX controls must be run for the Restricted Sites zone.
This policy setting determines whether Internet Explorer runs Anti-Malware programs against ActiveX controls, to check if they're safe to load on pages. If you enable this policy setting, Inte...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000278
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Prevent bypassing SmartScreen Filter warnings must be enabled.
This policy setting determines whether the user can bypass warnings from SmartScreen Filter. SmartScreen Filter prevents the user from browsing to or downloading from sites that are known to host m...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000209
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Prevent bypassing SmartScreen Filter warnings about files that are not commonly downloaded from the internet must be enabled.
This policy setting determines whether the user can bypass warnings from SmartScreen Filter. SmartScreen Filter warns the user about executable files that Internet Explorer users do not commonly do...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.