Detections
Analytics

1.76 O365-OU-000008

Information

Outlook must be configured to prevent users overriding attachment security settings.

GROUP ID: V-223353
RULE ID: SV-223353r961353

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 blocked by Outlook. Outlook also checks the 'Level1Remove' registry key when this setting is specified.

If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users will be allowed to override the set of attachments blocked by Outlook.

Solution

Set the policy value for

User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Outlook 2016 >> Security >> Prevent users from customizing attachment security settings

to 'Enabled'.

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/26066

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-6(10), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-002235, Rule-ID|SV-223353r961353_rule, STIG-ID|O365-OU-000008, Vuln-ID|V-223353

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: ba5462d13b3fd9452074f9910f9eb5890a3ab28cb92bcb4598427e331f0a62b2