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BrandonMaslen
Microsoft
MicrosoftIntroducing Microsoft Edge Secure Network
Today, we're excited to share that we have kicked off experiments for Microsoft Edge Secure Network in the Canary channel of Microsoft Edge. We are opening this preview to a small audience to get i...
- can Microsoft Edge Secure Network feature be managed?
- does the browser edition matter? In other words, does Microsoft Edge Enterprise have Microsoft Edge Secure Network
I can find...
Use the Microsoft Edge Secure Network to protect your browsing - Microsoft Support
Access with your personal account: To access Secure Network, log in with your personal Microsoft account. Microsoft Edge Secure Network is not available for enterprise accounts.But I can't find group policy settings or Intune settings that might enable to enable/disable this capability.
This is effectively a VPN.
VPNs are illegal in China.
if a member of my organisation is in China and enables this feature, this is a crime.
Hence, controls are necessary.
If the Edge Secure Network gateways are known, I could block them on the corporate firewall to prevent connecting to the Edge Secure Network. But that is of course useless for laptops away from the corporate network with split routing.
- I'm a Windows Insider. I've never seen Secure Network in my Canary. I finally went into settings tonight and found Microsoft Edge Secure Network. It's greyed out, and if I hover over the "briefcase" I get a message, This setting is turned off for managed browsers. <Sigh>
- The information seems to indicate that you need to have several things lined up.
- Sign in to Microsoft account on computer (not the Local one)
- Canary channel
- Cloudflare - not sure whether Microsoft does this part or if you need to change your DNS / browser settings to Cloudflare. You can change to Cloudflare in Edge by clicking on three dots (...) upper right, and select Settings. On the left panel, select Privacy, Search, and Services.
Scroll down to the Security heading in the right panel and you will see section titled "Use secure DNS to specify how to lookup the network address for Websites Turn it on if you want to setup Cloudflare. Down below that, click on "Choose a service provider". The dropdown in the box will offer you a number of choices including "Cloudflare(1.1.1.1)" . The box will then fill out with the necessary Cloudflare information.
Note that this does not turn on the Secure Network automatically but sets up connections that may be helpful in getting it turned on.
I can't think of any other possible prep you can do at this point other than what is stated in the Secure Network info / invited. It's up to Microsoft system to finish up (I guess). A reboot after changing all this might be in order as well.
Recommend going over all the settings in the "Privacy, search, and services" while you are there just to check what you originally setup (or if an update changed it back). The 'strict' security setting might be a little too aggressive for some sites. If any issues with this on you may want to change to balanced.
You may also want to checkout any active Extensions in Edge in case there might be a conflict with using Secure Network - just a thought...
