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DTOO223 – Outlook – Trust EMail from senders in receiver’s contact list must be enforced.

Details

E-mail addresses in users’ Contacts list are treated as safe senders for purposes of filtering junk e-mail. If this configuration is changed, e-mail from users’ Contacts might be misclassified as junk and cause important information to be lost.

Solution

Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Outlook 2010 -> Outlook Options -> Preferences -> Junk E-mail ‘Trust E-mail from Contacts’ to ‘Enabled’.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system Windows.

References

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Updated on July 16, 2022
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