Details

As a security precaution, password caching for eMail Internet protocols such as POP3 or IMAP may lead to password discovery and eventually to data loss. An attacker that is able to access the users’ profile may be able to acquire these cached passwords, they could then use this information to compromise the users’ email accounts and other systems that use the same credentials.

Solution

Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Outlook 2010 -> Security ‘Disable ‘Remember password’ for Internet e-mail accounts’ to ‘Enabled’.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_Outlook_2010_V1R13_STIG.zip

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

References

• 800-53|IA-5(13)
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-002007
• Rule-ID|SV-33524r1_rule
• STIG-ID|DTOO237
• Vuln-ID|V-17587

Source

• Tenable.com/audits