New Zealand Information Security Manual (NZISM)
Chapter 15: Email security – New Zealand Information Security Manual (NZISM)

New Zealand Information Security Manual (NZISM) 15.2.37.C.01: 15.2.37.C.01 Email gateway filtering of suspicious content and spoofing

Agencies should set up gateway filters to catch: (a) incoming and outgoing email, attachments included, that holds any of: malicious code; material at odds with the agency's email policy; material that cannot be identified; file types that are deny listed or not authorised; and encrypted material, where it can neither be scanned for malicious code nor authenticated as sent by a trusted source; (b) email to aliases meant for internal use only whose source address lies outside the domain; and (c) every email coming in over an external connection with a source address using one of the agency's internal domain names.

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What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 2 controls across 1 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

  • ISM-1234 Filtering email bodies and attachments
  • ISM-1502 Blocking external email using internal domains

Every mapping shown was judged rather than inferred from wording similarity, and the ones that failed review are published too. See the coverage reports and what was rejected.

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