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jbmartin6
Nov 16, 2022Iron Contributor
SenseNDR.exe consistently using 10-20% of CPU
We've deployed MDE to a subset of our workstation, and found that SenseNDR.exe consistently uses 10-20% of CPU even on idle machines. Does anyone know what role SenseNDR plays within MDE and why it n...
jbmartin6
Mar 23, 2023Iron Contributor
Not totally. We did reduce it quite a bit by turning off device discovery, but otherwise I think it has to be accepted as part of the tool. Judging from SenseNDR's command line, this is where MS incorporated Zeeke IDS functionality, so a lot of the traffic inspection and tagging relies on this process, such as detecting named pipes and LDAP queries.
SevenTowers140
Mar 23, 2023Copper Contributor
Thanks!