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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-APP-000014

    Group
  • Exchange must use encryption for RPC client access.

    This setting controls whether client machines are forced to use secure channels to communicate with the server. If this feature is enabled, clients will only be able to communicate with the server ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000014

    Group
  • Exchange must use encryption for Outlook Web App (OWA) access.

    This setting controls whether client machines should be forced to use secure channels to communicate with this virtual directory. If this feature is enabled, clients will only be able to communicat...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000014

    Group
  • Exchange must have forms-based authentication enabled.

    Identification and Authentication provide the foundation for access control. Access to email services applications in the DOD requires authentication using DOD Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000027

    Group
  • Exchange must have administrator audit logging enabled.

    Unauthorized or malicious data changes can compromise the integrity and usefulness of the data. Automated attacks or malicious users with elevated privileges have the ability to effect change using...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000033

    Group
  • Exchange servers must use approved DOD certificates.

    Server certificates are required for many security features in Exchange; without them, the server cannot engage in many forms of secure communication. Failure to implement valid certificates makes...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000033

    Group
  • Exchange must have authenticated access set to integrated Windows authentication only.

    To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DOD-approved PKIs, all DOD systems (e.g., networks, web servers, and web porta...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000038

    Group
  • Exchange auto-forwarding email to remote domains must be disabled or restricted.

    Attackers can use automated messages to determine whether a user account is active, in the office, traveling, and so on. An attacker might use this information to conduct future attacks. Verify Aut...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000089

    Group
  • Exchange connectivity logging must be enabled.

    A connectivity log is a record of the SMTP connection activity of the outbound message delivery queues to the destination Mailbox server, smart host, or domain. Connectivity logging is available on...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000089

    Group
  • The Exchange email diagnostic log level must be set to the lowest level.

    Log files help establish a history of activities and can be useful in detecting attack attempts or determining tuning adjustments to improve availability. Diagnostic logging, however, characteristi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000089

    Group
  • Exchange audit record parameters must be set.

    Log files help establish a history of activities and can be useful in detecting attack attempts. This item declares the fields that must be available in the audit log file to adequately research ev...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-APP-000090

    Group
  • The RBAC role for audit log management must be defined and restricted.

    The RBAC role for the audit log management "Audit Log Role" should be defined in the Organizational or Enterprise Domain Security Plan (EDSP) to define the necessary personnel that are required to ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000098

    Group
  • Exchange email subject line logging must be disabled.

    Log files help establish a history of activities and can be useful in detecting attack attempts or determining tuning adjustments to improve availability. When "message tracking" is enabled, only t...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000098

    Group
  • Exchange message tracking logging must be enabled.

    A message tracking log provides a detailed log of all message activity as messages are transferred to and from a computer running Exchange. If events are not recorded, it may be difficult or impos...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000098

    Group
  • Exchange circular logging must be disabled.

    Logging provides a history of events performed and can also provide evidence of tampering or attack. Failure to create and preserve logs adds to the risk that suspicious events may go unnoticed and...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-APP-000111

    Group
  • Exchange queue monitoring must be configured with threshold and action.

    Monitors are automated "process watchers" that respond to performance changes and can be useful in detecting outages and alerting administrators where attention is needed. Exchange has built-in mon...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000118

    Group
  • Exchange must protect audit data against unauthorized read access.

    Log files help establish a history of activities and can be useful in detecting attack attempts or determining tuning adjustments to improve availability. Audit log content must always be considere...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000119

    Group
  • Exchange must protect audit data against unauthorized access.

    Log files help establish a history of activities and can be useful in detecting attack attempts or determining tuning adjustments to improve availability. Audit log content must always be considere...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000120

    Group
  • Exchange must protect audit data against unauthorized deletion.

    Log files help establish a history of activities and can be useful in detecting attack attempts or determining tuning adjustments to improve availability. Audit log content must always be considere...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000125

    Group
  • Exchange audit data must be on separate partitions.

    Log files help establish a history of activities and can be useful in detecting attack attempts or determining tuning adjustments to improve availability. Audit log content must always be considere...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000131

    Group
  • Exchange local machine policy must require signed scripts.

    Scripts often provide a way for attackers to infiltrate a system, especially scripts downloaded from untrusted locations. By setting machine policy to prevent unauthorized script executions, unanti...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

    Group
  • Exchange Send Fatal Errors to Microsoft must be disabled.

    It is detrimental for applications to provide, or install by default, functionality exceeding requirements or mission objectives. These unnecessary capabilities or services are often overlooked and...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

    Group
  • Exchange must not send customer experience reports to Microsoft.

    It is detrimental for applications to provide, or install by default, functionality exceeding requirements or mission objectives. These unnecessary capabilities or services are often overlooked and...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

    Group
  • The Exchange Internet Message Access Protocol 4 (IMAP4) service must be disabled.

    IMAP4 is not approved for use within the DOD. It uses a clear-text-based user name and password and does not support the DOD standard for PKI for email access. User name and password could easily b...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

    Group
  • The Exchange Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) service must be disabled.

    POP3 is not approved for use within the DOD. It uses a clear-text-based user name and password and does not support the DOD standard for PKI for email access. User name and password could easily be...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000211

    Group
  • Exchange Mailbox databases must reside on a dedicated partition.

    In the same way that added security layers can provide a cumulative positive effect on security posture, multiple applications can provide a cumulative negative effect. A vulnerability and subseque...
    Rule Medium Severity

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