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DISA Microsoft Exchange 2016 Edge Transport Server STIG v2r5

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Audit Details

Name: DISA Microsoft Exchange 2016 Edge Transport Server STIG v2r5

Updated: 12/30/2025

Authority: DISA STIG

Plugin: Windows

Revision: 1.3

Estimated Item Count: 76

File Details

Filename: DISA_STIG_Microsoft_Exchange_2016_Edge_Transport_Server_v2r5.audit

Size: 153 kB

MD5: 70c2c192f2e95a45d36b9a77579bd09e
SHA256: d266c8f1c472600ae9849e62e275aaf7fe76e14d367d3e97a8f3fa4da5b069bf

Audit Items

DescriptionCategories
Authentication Failure
DISA_STIG_Microsoft_Exchange_2016_Edge_Transport_Server_v2r5.audit from DISA Microsoft Exchange 2016 Edge Transport Server v2r5 STIG

SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

EX16-ED-000010 - Exchange must limit the Receive connector timeout.
EX16-ED-000020 - Exchange servers must use approved DoD certificates.
EX16-ED-000030 - Exchange must have accepted domains configured.
EX16-ED-000050 - Exchange external Receive connectors must be domain secure-enabled.
EX16-ED-000060 - The Exchange email Diagnostic log level must be set to the lowest level.
EX16-ED-000070 - Exchange Connectivity logging must be enabled.
EX16-ED-000080 - Exchange Queue monitoring must be configured with threshold and action.
EX16-ED-000090 - Exchange must not send Customer Experience reports to Microsoft.
EX16-ED-000100 - Exchange Audit data must be protected against unauthorized access (read access).
EX16-ED-000110 - Exchange Send Fatal Errors to Microsoft must be disabled.
EX16-ED-000120 - Exchange audit data must be protected against unauthorized access for modification.
EX16-ED-000130 - Exchange audit data must be protected against unauthorized access for deletion.
EX16-ED-000140 - Exchange audit data must be on separate partitions.
EX16-ED-000150 - The Exchange local machine policy must require signed scripts.
EX16-ED-000160 - Exchange Internet-facing Send connectors must specify a Smart Host.
EX16-ED-000170 - Exchange internal Send connectors must use domain security (mutual authentication Transport Layer Security)
EX16-ED-000180 - Exchange Internet-facing Receive connectors must offer Transport Layer Security (TLS) before using basic authentication.
EX16-ED-000190 - Exchange Outbound Connection Timeout must be 10 minutes or less.
EX16-ED-000200 - Exchange Outbound Connection Limit per Domain Count must be controlled.
EX16-ED-000230 - Exchange Send connector connections count must be limited.
EX16-ED-000240 - Exchange message size restrictions must be controlled on Send connectors.
EX16-ED-000250 - Exchange Send connectors delivery retries must be controlled.
EX16-ED-000260 - Exchange Send connectors must be clearly named.
EX16-ED-000270 - Exchange Receive connector Maximum Hop Count must be 60.
EX16-ED-000280 - Exchange Receive connectors must be clearly named.
EX16-ED-000290 - Exchange Receive connectors must control the number of recipients chunked on a single message.
EX16-ED-000300 - Exchange Receive connectors must control the number of recipients per message.
EX16-ED-000310 - The Exchange Internet Receive connector connections count must be set to default.
EX16-ED-000320 - Exchange Message size restrictions must be controlled on Receive connectors.
EX16-ED-000330 - Exchange messages with a blank sender field must be rejected.
EX16-ED-000340 - Exchange messages with a blank sender field must be filtered.
EX16-ED-000350 - Exchange filtered messages must be archived.
EX16-ED-000360 - The Exchange Sender filter must block unaccepted domains.
EX16-ED-000370 - Exchange nonexistent recipients must not be blocked.
EX16-ED-000380 - The Exchange Sender Reputation filter must be enabled.
EX16-ED-000390 - The Exchange Sender Reputation filter must identify the spam block level.
EX16-ED-000400 - Exchange Attachment filtering must remove undesirable attachments by file type.
EX16-ED-000410 - The Exchange Spam Evaluation filter must be enabled.
EX16-ED-000420 - The Exchange Block List service provider must be identified.
EX16-ED-000430 - Exchange messages with a malformed From address must be rejected.
EX16-ED-000470 - The Exchange Recipient filter must be enabled.
EX16-ED-000480 - The Exchange tarpitting interval must be set.
EX16-ED-000490 - Exchange internal Receive connectors must not allow anonymous connections.
EX16-ED-000500 - Exchange Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) IP Allow List entries must be empty.
EX16-ED-000510 - The Exchange Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) IP Allow List Connection filter must be enabled.
EX16-ED-000520 - The Exchange Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Sender filter must be enabled.
EX16-ED-000530 - Exchange must have antispam filtering installed.
EX16-ED-000540 - Exchange must have antispam filtering enabled - ContentFilterConfig