Run in FIPS compliant mode

Run in FIPS compliant mode - Outlook.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-17787	DTOO262 - Outlook	SV-19005r1_rule	ECSC-1	Medium

Description
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.

Description

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.

STIG	Date
Microsoft Outlook 2007	2014-10-03

Details

Check Text ( C-19041r1_chk )
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.

Check Text ( C-19041r1_chk )

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 (F-17687r1_fix)
The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 -> Security -> Cryptography “Run in FIPS compliant mode” will be set to “Enabled”.