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V-220830CAT II — Medium severitySV-220830r991589_rule

Enhanced anti-spoofing for facial recognition must be enabled on Window 10.

Rule version WN10-CC-000195 · STIG v3 · 2025-09-24

Discussion

Enhanced anti-spoofing provides additional protections when using facial recognition with devices that support it.

Check

Windows 10 v1507 LTSB version does not include this setting; it is NA for those systems.

If the following registry value does not exist or is not configured as specified, this is a finding:

Registry Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Registry Path: \SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Biometrics\FacialFeatures\

Value Name: EnhancedAntiSpoofing

Value Type: REG_DWORD Value: 0x00000001 (1)

Fix

Configure the policy value for Computer Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Windows Components >> Biometrics >> Facial Features >> "Configure enhanced anti-spoofing" to "Enabled".

v1607: The policy name is "Use enhanced anti-spoofing when available".

Identifiers

Group ID
V-220830
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-220830r991589_rule
Check ID
C-22545r554975_chk
Fix ID
F-22534r554976_fix