STIGUI
V-235720CAT II — Medium severitySV-235720r960852_rule

Bypassing Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prompts for sites must be disabled.

Rule version EDGE-00-000002 · STIG v2 · 2026-02-25

Discussion

This policy setting allows a decision to be made on whether users can override the Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warnings about potentially malicious websites.

If this setting is enabled, users cannot ignore Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warnings, and are blocked from continuing to the site.

If this setting is disabled or not configured, users can ignore Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warnings and continue to the site.

Check

The policy value for "Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/SmartScreen settings/Prevent bypassing Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prompts for sites" must be set to "Enabled".

Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge

If the value for "PreventSmartScreenPromptOverride" is not set to "REG_DWORD = 1", this is a finding.

If this machine is on SIPRNet, this is Not Applicable.

Fix

Set the policy value for "Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/SmartScreen settings/Prevent bypassing Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prompts for sites" to "Enabled".

Identifiers

Group ID
V-235720
Group title
SRG-APP-000073
Rule ID
SV-235720r960852_rule
Check ID
C-38939r766830_chk
Fix ID
F-38902r766831_fix