Details

Enable Microsoft Edge to save user passwords.

If this policy is enabled, users can save their passwords in Microsoft Edge. The next time the user visits the site, Microsoft Edge will enter the password automatically.

Solution

Set the policy value for ‘Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/Password manager and protection/Enable saving passwords to the password manager’ 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: Identification and Authentication.This control applies to the following type of system Windows.

References

• 800-53|IA-5(13)
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-002007
• Rule-ID|SV-235756r626523_rule
• STIG-ID|EDGE-00-000043
• Vuln-ID|V-235756

Source

• Tenable.com/audits