Security Hardening: Sound Recorder should be disabled

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Sound Recorder is a feature of Microsoft Windows that allows audio from a device with a microphone to be recorded and saved as an audio file on the local hard drive. Malicious actors with remote access to a workstation can use this functionality to record sensitive conversations in the vicinity of the workstation. To reduce this risk, Sound Recorder should be disabled.

Remediation

Disable the sound recorder.

To do disable it configure the policy value for:
Computer Configuration
|_ Administrative Templates
|_ Windows Components
|_ Sound Recorder
|_ Do not allow Sound Recorder to run to "Enable"