Windows Defender tamper protection management in Microsoft Intune
This month we’ve released Windows Defender tamper protection management in Microsoft Intune! Tamper protection is a new setting available in the Windows Security app which adds additional protections against change to key Windows Defender security features. Enabling this feature prevents others (including malicious apps) from changing/disabling important protection features such as: Real-time protection, which is the core antimalware scanning feature of Microsoft Defender ATP next gen protection and should rarely, if ever, be disabled Cloud-delivered protection, which uses our cloud-based detection and prevention services to block never-before seen malware within seconds IOAV, which handles the detection of suspicious files from the Internet Behavior monitoring, which works with real-time protection to analyze and determine if active processes are behaving in a suspicious or malicious way and blocks them The feature also prevents the deletion of security intelligence updates and the disabling of the entire antimalware solution. Enterprise management of this feature via Intune requires an E5 license (such as those with a Microsoft Defender ATP license) and the device be MDM enrolled into Intune. The feature is available on Windows 10 1903 Enterprise devices, and we’re looking at backporting the feature to down level Windows clients later this year. Before you can enable the setting, you need to connect Microsoft Defender ATP to Intune. To do this, browse to https://securitycenter.windows.com and visit Settings > Advanced features. Turn the Microsoft Intune connection on and press save. Next, browse to the Microsoft Intune console. To enable Windows Defender tamper protection, create an Endpoint Protection policy in Intune and enable the Tamper protection feature. Assign this policy to a user or device group, and tamper protection will be enabled. To disable the feature, change the setting to Disabled and deploy the policy to the target devices. Note: Not configured will not change the state of a previously deployed configuration. To disable tamper protection, you must deploy a Disabled policy state. For more information on the Windows Defender tamper protection feature, visit https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-defender-antivirus/prevent-changes-to-security-settings-with-tamper-protection Matt Shadbolt Senior Program Manager Microsoft IntuneTurn on Mandatory ASLR in Windows Security
I've been using it for quite a while now, it caused no problems or errors with any legitimate programs, games, anti cheat systems etc other than with some "custom" made portable programs. it's Off by default, when you turn it on, you will have to restart your device. Address space layout randomization Address space layout randomization (ASLR) is a computer security technique involved in preventing exploitation of memory corruption vulnerabilities. In order to prevent an attacker from reliably jumping to, for example, a particular exploited function in memory, ASLR randomly arranges the address space positions of key data areas of a process, including the base of the executable and the positions of the stack, heap and libraries. The Linux PaX project first coined the term "ASLR", and published the first design and implementation of ASLR in July 2001 as a patch for the Linux kernel. It is seen as a complete implementation, providing also a patch for kernel stack randomization since October 2002.[1] The first mainstream operating system to support ASLR by default was the OpenBSD version 3.4 in 2003,[2][3] followed by Linux in 2005. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomization https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/srd/2017/11/21/clarifying-the-behavior-of-mandatory-aslr/ Other options that are tuned off by default and you should enable to make your Windows device more secure With the increasing number of threats in cyber security and new ransomwares, If you are only relying on Windows 10's built in security and not using any 3rd party AV such as Kaspersky, you must enable these features to keep yourself secure. Hope everyone stay safe![SOLVED] Memory Integrity bounces back to "turned off" state after Windows restart - fast ring 19536
This is an old post and the issue is no longer relevant. This has been happening since a couple of builds ago as well. I turn on the Memory Integrity in Core isolation section of Windows Defender, then after a restart or two, I go check again and see it's turned off. it usually happens when I uninstall a program that needs to be restarted. but it also happens when I uninstall a software that does Not need Windows restart to finish uninstall process. https://aka.ms/AA6xajf
Get-MpComputerStatus returns no output
Hello, on a Server 2019 with windows defender installed in the "Windows Security GUI" all is fine. Protection definitions are up to date, exclusions are set ... (managed with SCCM) But when i use the Get-MpComputerStatus it returns no output. (not even an error) Please help.You can now sync your favorites with Application Guard Window from Windows Defender
Microsoft Edge version 91.0.831.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit) you need to enable this newly added flag: edge://flags/#edge-wdag-favorites-sync and then when you open a new application guard window, your favorites will be there. Learn more about Windows Defender Application Guard mode (WDAG) and it's security features here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/microsoft-defender-application-guard/md-app-guard-overview https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-security-windows-defender-application-guardWindows Defender and how it performs against malware
I recently watched this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE-xdb9hTqY testing how Windows Defender (+ Sandbox mode ) performs against real malware. it made me kind of worried. I really hope Microsoft improves it so that installing 3rd party AV software won't be the first thing a user should do after Windows installation. obviously I still and will keep using Windows Defender because I'm aware of the files I download but for the majority of people, that's not unfortunately the case. I think Microsoft should put Windows Defender ATP inside the normal Windows 10 pro editions by default for everyone. it's not a bad thing to make your OS a safe environment for your users. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/microsoft-defender-atp?ocid=cx-blog-mmpc
