Applications that serve to protect organizations and individuals from spam messages must incorporate update mechanisms updating protection mechanisms and signature updates when new application releases are available in accordance with organizational configuration management policies and procedures.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-35693	SRG-APP-000260-MAPP-NA	SV-46980r1_rule		Medium

Description
Senders of spam messages are continually modifying their tactics and source email addresses in order to elude protection mechanisms. To stay up-to-date with the changing threat and to identify spam messages, it is critical that spam protection mechanisms are kept current. Rationale for non-applicability: Enterprise email server functionality is not within the scope of the Mobile Applications SRG, which applies to single-user applications that do not provide server functionality to other hosts.

Description

Senders of spam messages are continually modifying their tactics and source email addresses in order to elude protection mechanisms. To stay up-to-date with the changing threat and to identify spam messages, it is critical that spam protection mechanisms are kept current. Rationale for non-applicability: Enterprise email server functionality is not within the scope of the Mobile Applications SRG, which applies to single-user applications that do not provide server functionality to other hosts.

STIG	Date
Mobile Application Security Requirements Guide	2013-01-04

Details

Check Text ( C-44036r1_chk )
This requirement is NA for the MAPP SRG.

Fix Text (F-40236r1_fix)
The requirement is NA. No fix is required.