Detections
Analytics

1.1.68 Ensure 'Send site information to improve Microsoft services' is set to 'Disabled'

Information

This policy setting controls whether information about visited websites in Microsoft Edge is sent to Microsoft.

The recommended state for this setting is Disabled.

Rationale:

Data should not be shared with 3rd party vendors in an enterprise managed environment.

Impact:

Information about visited sites as well as diagnostic data (Default - Required diagnostic data (formally known as Basic)), such as device, battery, networking, processor and memory, virtualization, operating system, and Windows storage attributes.

Solution

To establish the recommended configuration via GP, set the following UI path to Disabled

Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Microsoft Edge\Send site information to improve Microsoft services

Note: This Group Policy path may not exist by default. It is provided by the Group Policy template MSEdge.admx/adml that can be downloaded from Microsoft here.




Default Value:

Enabled - Required diagnostic data (formally known as Basic).

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/files/3005

Item Details

References: CSCv7|5.1

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: cba5d25c12c7f79485bd21aa96470e3490c1dfabceca9abfdf0a25dd9a7e6493