#Modern Workplace

Earlier this year in January, I posted a blog on how to Enable Safe Browsing in Google Chrome in Windows devices using Intune . Now it is time to extend the same security policy to mobile devices. While there are many security features that can be enabled for Google Chrome, the prime focus for this blog will be Safe browsing. I will not go into too much detail about Safe browsing and why Enhanced protection should be enabled as I have already covered the details in the earlier blog post . However, when it comes to mobile devices and iOS in particular, it is not as straight forward as it is for Android. Let's see how the setting can be configured using in Intune. Enabling Enhanced Safe Browsing mode in Android 1. In Microsoft Intune admin center , go to Apps > App configuration policies 2. Click on Add and select Managed Devices. 3. Provide a name and select platform as Android Enterprise. 4. In the Profile type, you can select the profile of your choice, or All profile types. In...

  While working with Google Chrome admx policies, a feature called  Safe Browsing  caught my attention. After doing some research I decided to blog my thoughts on it and how it can be enabled using Intune. What is Safe Browsing? Safe Browsing helps in protecting against phishing, social engineering, malware, unwanted software, malicious ads, intrusive ads, and abusive websites or extensions. Chrome contacts Google's servers periodically or real-time (depending on the protection level) to download the most recent Safe Browsing list of unsafe sites and is stored locally in the system. Chrome checks the URL of each site visited or file that is downloaded against this local list.  When Chrome starts, and on each update of the Safe Browsing list, Chrome scans extensions installed in the browser against the Safe Browsing list. If an extension on the list is found, Chrome will disable the extension. Different levels of Protection are -  Enhanced protection (Recomm...