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DTOO223 – Trust EMail from senders in receivers contact list must be enforced.

Details

Email addresses in users’ Contacts list are treated as safe senders for purposes of filtering junk email. If this configuration is changed, email 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 2013 -> 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.

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Updated on July 16, 2022
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