Details

Enables network prediction and prevents users from changing this setting.

This controls DNS prefetching, TCP and SSL pre-connection, and pre-rendering of web pages.

If this policy is not configured, network prediction is enabled but the user can change it.

Policy options mapping:

– NetworkPredictionAlways (0) = Predict network actions on any network connection.

– NetworkPredictionWifiOnly (1) = Not supported; if this value is used it will be treated as if ‘Predict network actions on any network connection’ (0) was set.

– NetworkPredictionNever (2) = Do not predict network actions on any network connection.

Solution

Set the policy value for ‘Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/Enable network prediction’ to ‘Enabled’ with the option value set to ‘Don’t predict network actions on any network connection’.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_Edge_V1R4_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system Windows.

References

• 800-53|CM-7a.
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-000381
• Rule-ID|SV-235728r766845_rule
• STIG-ID|EDGE-00-000011
• Vuln-ID|V-235728

Source

• Tenable.com/audits