STIGUI
V-221237CAT II — Medium severitySV-221237r961161_rule

The Exchange Sender Reputation filter must be enabled.

Rule version EX16-ED-000380 · STIG v2 · 2024-12-06

Discussion

By performing filtering at the perimeter, up to 90 percent of spam, malware, and other undesirable messages are eliminated from the message stream rather than admitting them into the mail server environment. Sender Reputation is antispam functionality that blocks messages according to many characteristics of the sender. Sender Reputation relies on persisted data about the sender to determine what action, if any, to take on an inbound message. This setting enables the Sender Reputation function.

Check

Note: If third-party anti-spam product is being used, the anti-spam product must be configured to meet the requirement.

Open the Exchange Management Shell and enter the following command:

Get-SenderReputationConfig | Select Name, Enabled

If the value of "Enabled" is not set to "True", this is a finding.

Fix

Open the Exchange Management Shell and enter the following command:

Set-SenderReputationConfig -Enabled $true

Identifiers

Group ID
V-221237
Group title
SRG-APP-000261
Rule ID
SV-221237r961161_rule
Check ID
C-22952r411837_chk
Fix ID
F-22941r411838_fix