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V-221580CAT II — Medium severitySV-221580r961083_rule

Safe Browsing must be enabled.

Rule version DTBC-0038 · STIG v2 · 2025-05-15

Discussion

Allows you to control whether Google Chrome's Safe Browsing feature is enabled and the mode it operates in.

If this policy is set to 'NoProtection' (value 0), Safe Browsing is never active.

If this policy is set to 'StandardProtection' (value 1, which is the default), Safe Browsing is always active in the standard mode.

If this policy is set to 'EnhancedProtection' (value 2), Safe Browsing is always active in the enhanced mode, which provides better security, but requires sharing more browsing information with Google.

Check

Universal method: 1. In the omnibox (address bar) type chrome://policy 2. If SafeBrowsingProtectionLevel is not displayed under the Policy Name column or it is not set to 1 or 2 under the Policy Value column, then this is a finding.

Windows method: 1. Start regedit 2. Navigate to HKLM\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\ 3. If the SafeBrowsingProtectionLevel value name does not exist or its value data is not set to 1 or 2, then this is a finding.

Fix

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\Safe Browsing Settings Policy Name: Safe Browsing Protection Level Policy State: Enabled Policy Value: "(1) Safe Browsing is active in the standard mode", or "(2) Safe Browsing is active in the enhanced mode. This mode provides better security, but requires sharing more browsing information with Google".

Identifiers

Group ID
V-221580
Group title
SRG-APP-000206
Rule ID
SV-221580r961083_rule
Check ID
C-23295r862941_chk
Fix ID
F-23284r862942_fix