Details

This setting Allow from websites I visit allows all first-party cookies and blocks all third-party cookies.

Rationale:

Blocking third party cookies can help protect a user’s privacy by eliminating some tracking cookies.

Solution

Follow the below steps to set Cookies and website data to Allow from websites I visit:

1. Click Safari.
2. Click Preferences.
3. Click Privacy.
4. Set Cookies and website data to Allow from websites I visit.

To configure the plist follow the below steps:

1. Open the com.apple.Safari.plist.
2. Find the token BlockStoragePolicy
3. Ensure this token is immediately followed by 3

Default Value:

Allow from websites I visit.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://workbench.cisecurity.org/files/1822

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 Unix.

References

• 800-53|CM-6b.
• CSCv6|13

Source

• Tenable.com/audits