V-288287

Discussion

Originators of spam messages are constantly changing their techniques to defeat spam countermeasures; therefore, spam software must be constantly updated to address the changing threat. A manual update procedure is labor intensive and does not scale well in an enterprise environment. This risk may be mitigated by using an automatic update capability. Spam protection mechanisms include, for example, signature definitions, rule sets, and algorithms.

Check Content

Review the anti-malware application documentation and deployed configuration to determine whether spam protection mechanisms are updated automatically. 

If the anti-malware application spam protection mechanisms are not configured to be updated automatically, this is a finding.