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How to harden MDATP against ransomware (Good, Better and Best Configurations)
Just wanted to share some information on how to fine tune Defender to block ransomware. We used an open source Ransomware simulator from Github against three configurations of Defender: Window...
The main point of the post above is to distinguish the efficacy of Windows Defender that ships inside *all versions of Windows 10* not just Enterprise, and then compare that to a hardened Windows 10 E5 edition of Microsoft Defender ATP (good, better, best).
There were already other blog articles written on how to harden the Windows 10 native/free edition, but at the time I wrote the article, there were no clear articles offering step-by-step guidance on a hardened Windows 10 E5 MDATP configuration. So that was my gift to the community to help out.
There were already other blog articles written on how to harden the Windows 10 native/free edition, but at the time I wrote the article, there were no clear articles offering step-by-step guidance on a hardened Windows 10 E5 MDATP configuration. So that was my gift to the community to help out.
Joe Stocker Thanks for the gift as it's sometimes difficult to navigate on our own 
I was just calling out that for some who might not be able to stretch to E5 that they can still use some parts of this protection if they are prepared to do some of the manual/scripting, etc...