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V-221581CAT II — Medium severitySV-221581r961128_rule

Browser history must be saved.

Rule version DTBC-0039 · STIG v2 · 2025-05-15

Discussion

This policy disables saving browser history in Google Chrome and prevents users from changing this setting. If this setting is enabled, browsing history is not saved. If this setting is disabled or not set, browsing history is saved.

Check

Universal method: 1. In the omnibox (address bar) type chrome://policy 2. If the policy 'SavingBrowserHistoryDisabled' is not shown or is not set to false, then this is a finding.

Windows method: 1. Start regedit 2. Navigate to HKLM\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\ 3. If the SavingBrowserHistoryDisabled value name does not exist or its value data is not set to 0, 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\ Policy Name: Disable saving browser history Policy State: Disabled Policy Value: N/A

Identifiers

Group ID
V-221581
Group title
SRG-APP-000231
Rule ID
SV-221581r961128_rule
Check ID
C-23296r415870_chk
Fix ID
F-23285r415871_fix