9.7: Deploy and Maintain Email Server Anti-Malware Protections ========================================================= Deploy and maintain email server anti-malware protections, such as attachment scanning and/or sandboxing.
Asset Type | Security Function | Implementation Groups |
---|---|---|
Network | Protect | 3 |
- Safeguard 1.1: Establish and Maintain Detailed Enterprise Asset Inventory
- Safeguard 4.1: Establish and Maintain a Secure Configuration Process
GV1
: Enterprise asset inventoryGV3
: Configuration standard
- Use
GV1
to identify and enumerate all email servers within the enterprise (M1) - For each email server identified in Operation 1, use
GV3
to check if native or external anti-malware protections are configured - Identify and enumerate email servers with configured anti-malware protection (M2)
- Identify and enumerate email servers without configured anti-malware protection (M3)
- For each email server identified in Operation 1, use
- M1 = Count of email servers
- M2 = Count of properly configured email servers
- M3 = Count of improperly configured email servers
Metric | The percentage of properly configured email servers |
Calculation | M2 / M1 |