Title

Run in FIPS compliant mode - Outlook. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Outlook 2007 can run in a mode that complies with Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), a set of standards published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for use by non-military United States government agencies and by government contractors. By default, Outlook does not run in FIPS-compliant mode. Organizations that do business with the U.S. government but do not run Outlook in FIPS-compliant mode risk violating the government's rules regarding the handling of sensitive information.

Check Content

The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 -> Security -> Cryptography “Run in FIPS compliant mode” will be set to “Enabled”. Procedure: Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Security Criteria: If the value FIPSMode is REG_DWORD = 1, this is not a finding.

Fix Text

The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 -> Security -> Cryptography “Run in FIPS compliant mode” will be set to “Enabled”.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-19005r1_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-17787

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