The Internet Fax Feature must be disabled.

From Microsoft Office System 2010 STIG

Associated with: CCI-000381

SV-33472r1_rule The Internet Fax Feature must be disabled.

Vulnerability discussion

Excel, PowerPoint, and Word users can use the Internet Fax feature to send documents to fax recipients through an Internet fax service provider. If your organization has policies that govern the time, place, or manner in which faxes are sent, this feature could help users evade those policies.By default, Office users can use the Internet Fax feature.

Check content

The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2010 -> Services -> Fax “Disable Internet Fax feature” must be set to “Enabled”. Procedure: Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\14.0\common\services\fax Criteria: If the value NoFax is REG_DWORD = 1, this is not a finding.

Fix text

Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2010 -> Services -> Fax “Disable Internet Fax feature” to “Enabled”.

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