Applications that are utilized to address the issue of spam and provide protection from spam must automatically update any and all spam protection measures including signature definitions.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-35694	SRG-APP-000261-MAPP-NA	SV-46981r1_rule		Medium

Description
Originators of spam emails are constantly changing their source email addresses in order to defeat spam countermeasures; therefore, spam software must be constantly updated to address the changing threat. A manual update procedure is labor intensive and does not scale well in an enterprise environment which necessitates an automatic update capability. 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

Originators of spam emails are constantly changing their source email addresses in order to defeat spam countermeasures; therefore, spam software must be constantly updated to address the changing threat. A manual update procedure is labor intensive and does not scale well in an enterprise environment which necessitates an automatic update capability. 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-44038r1_chk )
This requirement is NA for the MAPP SRG.

Fix Text (F-40238r1_fix)
The requirement is NA. No fix is required.