DTBC-0027 - Search suggestions must be disabled.

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Information

Search suggestion should be disabled as it could lead to searches being conducted that were never intended to be made. Enables search suggestions in Google Chrome's omnibox and prevents users from changing this setting. If you enable this setting, search suggestions are used. If you disable this setting, search suggestions are never used. If you enable or disable this setting, users cannot change or override this setting in Google Chrome. If this policy is left not set, this will be enabled but the user will be able to change it.

Solution

Windows group policy:
1. Open the group policy editor tool with gpedit.msc
2. Navigate to Policy Path: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Google\Google Chrome\
Policy Name: Enable search suggestions
Policy State: Disabled
Policy Value: N/A

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Google_Chrome_V2R8_STIG.zip

Item Details

References: CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000381, Rule-ID|SV-221576r615937_rule, STIG-ID|DTBC-0027, STIG-Legacy|SV-57607, STIG-Legacy|V-44773, Vuln-ID|V-221576

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: fa007f994deea7b9c068360dd630260d4c5465d62442b3d95793b82554ef66f2