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The Symantec Endpoint Protection Internet Email Auto-Protect must be enabled.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-42753 DTASEP093 SV-55481r2_rule Medium
Description
Email has become one of the most frequently used methods of spreading malware, through embedded HTML code and attachments. User awareness and training, warning users to not open suspicious emails or email attachments and to not click hyperlinks, etc. from unknown or known senders, will not fully protect from email-borne malware. Mass mailing worms are similar to email-borne viruses but are self-contained rather than being designed to infect an existing file. Protecting from email-borne viruses and mass mailing worms by scanning email upon delivery mitigates the risk of infection via email.
STIG Date
Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 Managed Client Antivirus 2015-07-08

Details

Check Text ( C-49025r1_chk )
Server check: From the Symantec Endpoint Protection Management Server, Symantec Endpoint Protection Management Console: Select Policies -> Double-click the applied policy -> Under Windows Settings, Email Scans -> Select Internet Email Auto-Protect -> Select the Scan Details tab -> Ensure "Enable Internet Email Auto-Protect" is selected.

Criteria: If "Enable Internet Email Auto-Protect" is not selected, this is a finding.

On the client machine, use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key:
32 bit:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\AV\Storages\InternetMail\RealTimeScan
64 bit:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\AV\Storages\InternetMail\RealTimeScan

Criteria: If the value of OnOff is not 1, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-48339r1_fix)
From the Symantec Endpoint Protection Management Server, Symantec Endpoint Protection Management Console: Select Policies -> Double-click the applied policy -> Under Windows Settings, Email Scans -> Select Internet Email Auto-Protect -> Select the Scan Details tab -> Select "Enable Internet Email Auto-Protect".