Details

This policy setting lets you decide whether users can override the Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warnings about potentially malicious websites.

If you enable this setting users can’t ignore Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warnings and they are blocked from continuing to the site.

If you disable or don’t configure this setting users can ignore Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warnings and continue to the site.

This policy is available only on Windows instances that are joined to a Microsoft Active Directory domain Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise instances that enrolled for device management or macOS instances that are that are managed via MDM or joined to a domain via MCX.

Solution

Policy Path: Microsoft EdgeSmartScreen settings
Policy Setting Name: Prevent bypassing Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prompts for sites

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-security-baselines/security-baseline-for-microsoft-edge-version-89/ba-p/2186265

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: System and Information Integrity.This control applies to the following type of system Windows.

References

• 800-53|SI-3.

Source

• Tenable.com/audits