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Microsoft Edge Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Online revocation checks must be performed.

    If you enable this policy, Microsoft Edge will perform soft-fail, online OCSP/CRL checks. "Soft fail" means that if the revocation server can't be reached, the certificate will be considered valid....
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Personalization of ads, search, and news by sending browsing history to Microsoft must be disabled.

    This policy prevents Microsoft from collecting a user's Microsoft Edge browsing history to be used for personalizing advertising, search, news and other Microsoft services. This setting is only av...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Extensions installation must be blocklisted by default.

    List specific extensions that users cannot install in Microsoft Edge. When this policy is deployed, any extensions on this list that were previously installed will be disabled, and the user will no...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Microsoft Defender SmartScreen must be enabled.

    This policy setting configures Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, which provides warning messages to help protect users from potential phishing scams and malicious software. By default, Microsoft Def...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Microsoft Defender SmartScreen must be configured to block potentially unwanted apps.

    This policy setting configures blocking for potentially unwanted apps with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen. Potentially unwanted app blocking with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen provides warning mes...
    Rule Medium Severity

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