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Balancing security and flexibility when implementing Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC)
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Wednesday, Oct 26, 2022, 08:30 AM PDTEvent details
With the growing sophistication in info sec compromises, organizations are sharply increasing adoption of application control. Windows Defender Application Control has had significant changes over th...
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Updated Dec 27, 2024
PaulKlerkx
Oct 19, 2022Iron Contributor
We use a third-party AV (Mcafee), is WDAC usable in this case or do we need to remove McAfee and switch to all defender to allow it to work?
- JavoMejiaOct 19, 2022Copper ContributorMost of WDAC features are part of Windows OS and those features are managed from Intune, Configuration Manager or GPO. You don't need to uninstall McAfee in order to work. Some Defender for endpoint (EDR) security remote tasks may use WDCA in order to enforce app execution restrictions.
- PaulKlerkxOct 19, 2022Iron Contributorawesome, thankyou.