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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • DTOO124 - Scripted Window Security

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    Group
  • Scripted Window Security must be enforced.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Malicious websites often try to confuse or trick users into giving a site permission to perform an action allowing the site t...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO313 - Automatically download enclosures

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    Group
  • Automatically downloading enclosures on RSS must be disallowed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy setting controls Outlook's ability to automatically download enclosures on RSS items.&lt;/VulnDiscussion&gt;&lt;F...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO344 - Outlook Rich Text options

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    Group
  • Outlook Rich Text options must be set for converting to plain text format.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Outlook automatically converts RTF formatted messages that are sent over the Internet to HTML format, so that the message for...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO314 - Set message format

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    Group
  • Default message format must be set to use Plain Text.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Outlook uses HTML as the default email format. HTML format poses a security risk by embedding information into the email itse...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO315 - Outlook Security settings

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    Group
  • Outlook must be configured not to prompt users to choose security settings if default settings fail.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy prompts the user to choose security settings if default settings fail, but allowing users to select their own sec...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO316 - Minimum encryption settings

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    Group
  • Outlook minimum encryption key length settings must be set.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This setting allows the minimum key length for an encrypted email message to be configured.&lt;/VulnDiscussion&gt;&lt;FalsePo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO317 - Signed/encrypted messages

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    Group
  • Replies or forwards to signed/encrypted messages must be signed/encrypted.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This setting controls whether replies and forwards to signed/encrypted mail should also be signed/encrypted. &lt;/VulnDiscus...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO320 - Check e-mail address against certificate

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    Group
  • Check e-mail addresses against addresses of certificates being used must be disallowed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy setting controls whether Outlook verifies the user's email address with the address associated with the certifica...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO424 - Disable weather bar in Outlook

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    Group
  • The use of the weather bar in Outlook must be disabled

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Weather Bar in Outlook displays weather conditions and forecast for a geographic location. By default, Outlook uses weath...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO425 - Disable Internet and network path into hyperlinks

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    Group
  • Text in Outlook that represents Internet and network paths must not be automatically turned into hyperlinks.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The ability of Outlook to automatically turn text that represents Internet and network paths into hyperlinks would allow user...
    Rule Medium Severity

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