Details

QUIC is used by more than half of all connections from the Chrome web browser to Google’s servers, and this activity is undesirable in the DoD.

Setting the policy to Enabled or leaving it unset allows the use of QUIC protocol in Google Chrome.

Setting the policy to Disabled disallows the use of QUIC protocol.

Solution

Windows group policy:
1. Open the ‘group policy editor’ tool with gpedit.msc.
2. Navigate to Policy Path: Computer ConfigurationAdministrative TemplatesGoogle Chrome.
– Policy Name: Allow QUIC protocol
– Policy State: Disabled
– Policy Value: N/A

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Google_Chrome_V2R4_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-7(1)(b)
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-001762
• Rule-ID|SV-245538r756936_rule
• STIG-ID|DTBC-0074
• Vuln-ID|V-245538

Source

• Tenable.com/audits