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Setting 
Default 
Recommendation 
Description 
Watch configuration 
files for changes 
(check every N 
seconds) 
Unchecked 
Unchecked 
If your configuration requires this 
setting to be enabled (if using 
WebSphere ND vertical cluster for 
example), increase the time to be as 
large as possible. 
If an attacker is able to modify the 
configuration of your ColdFusion 
server, their changes can become 
active within a short period of time 
when this setting is enabled. 
Enable Global Script 
Protection 
Unchecked 
Understand 
limitations, 
Checked 
This setting provides very limited 
protection against certain Cross Site 
Scripting attack vectors. It is 
important to understand that 
enabling this setting does not 
protect your site from all possible 
Cross Site Scripting attacks. 
When this setting is turned on it 
uses a regular expression defined in 
the file neo-security.xml to replace 
input variables containing following 
tags: object, embed, script, applet, 
meta with InvalidTag. This setting 
does not restrict any JavaScript 
strings that may be injected and 
executed, iframe tags, or any XSS 
obfuscation techniques. 
Disable creation of 
unnamed 
applications 
Unchecked 
Checked 
Applications should have a name so 
they can be isolated from each 
other. 
Allow adding 
application variables 
to Servlet Context 
Unchecked 
Unchecked 
Keep unchecked to improve 
application isolation. 
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