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Announcing a global switch for tamper protection

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Shweta Jha
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Mar 08, 2021
Advanced breaches like human-operated ransomware campaigns and NOBELIUM continue to pose significant risks to businesses. Most of these breaches involve tampering with security solutions and settings...
Updated Mar 16, 2021
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Tamper Protection
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Shweta Jha
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Mar 10, 2021

Philost - you only need defender AV cloud protection to be on, the device needs to talk to cloud back-end to pull the setting, and I am assuming this should already be the case. I would love to understand in detail on what all negative side effects you are worries about and how best we can help answer those. And yes, thanks for your interest to turn it on, its needed.