Bypassing Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prompts for sites must be disabled.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-235720	SRG-APP-000073	EDGE-00-000002	SV-235720r960852_rule	2024-09-13	2

Description
This policy setting allows a decision to be made on whether users can override the Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warnings about potentially malicious websites. If this setting is enabled, users cannot ignore Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warnings, and are blocked from continuing to the site. If this setting is disabled or not configured, users can ignore Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warnings and continue to the site.

Description

This policy setting allows a decision to be made on whether users can override the Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warnings about potentially malicious websites. If this setting is enabled, users cannot ignore Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warnings, and are blocked from continuing to the site. If this setting is disabled or not configured, users can ignore Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warnings and continue to the site.

ℹ️ Check
The policy value for "Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/SmartScreen settings/Prevent bypassing Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prompts for sites" must be set to "Enabled". Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge If the value for "PreventSmartScreenPromptOverride" is not set to "REG_DWORD = 1", this is a finding. If this machine is on SIPRNet, this is Not Applicable.

ℹ️ Check

The policy value for "Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/SmartScreen settings/Prevent bypassing Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prompts for sites" must be set to "Enabled". Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge If the value for "PreventSmartScreenPromptOverride" is not set to "REG_DWORD = 1", this is a finding. If this machine is on SIPRNet, this is Not Applicable.

✔️ Fix
Set the policy value for "Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/SmartScreen settings/Prevent bypassing Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prompts for sites" to "Enabled".