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Firefox private browsing must be disabled.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Private browsing may be disabled in an administrative policy by setting the DisablePrivateBrowsing key under policies to true.

Rationale

Private browsing allows the user to browse the internet without recording their browsing history/activity. From a forensics perspective, this is unacceptable. Best practice requires that browser history is retained.

ID
xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_firefox_policy-private_browsing
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Shell Script

firefox_cfg="policies.json"
# Default to /etc/firefox/policies to use for remediations.
firefox_dirs="/etc/firefox/policies"
permissions=644

declare __REMEDIATE_PYTHON