Details

This policy sets the media autoplay policy for websites.

The default setting, ‘Not configured’ respects the current media autoplay settings and lets users configure their autoplay settings.

Setting to ‘Enabled’ sets media autoplay to ‘Allow’. All websites are allowed to autoplay media. Users cannot override this policy.

Setting to ‘Disabled’ sets media autoplay to ‘Block’. No websites are allowed to autoplay media. Users cannot override this policy.

Solution

Set the policy value for ‘Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/Allow media autoplay for websites’ to ‘disabled’.

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-235741r626523_rule
• STIG-ID|EDGE-00-000024
• Vuln-ID|V-235741

Source

• Tenable.com/audits