Tip Want to experience Defender for Endpoint? Sign up for a free trial. Network protection helps to prevent employees from using any application to access dangerous domains that may host phishing scams, exploits, and other malicious content on the internet. You can audit network protection in a test environment to view which apps would be blocked before you enable […]
Network protection helps prevent employees from using any application to access dangerous domains that may host phishing scams, exploits, and other malicious content on the Internet. This article helps you evaluate network protection by enabling the feature and guiding you to a testing site. The sites in this evaluation article aren’t malicious. They’re specially created websites […]
Overview of network protection Network protection helps protect devices from Internet-based events. Network protection is an attack surface reduction capability. It helps prevent employees from accessing dangerous domains through applications. Domains that host phishing scams, exploits, and other malicious content on the Internet are considered dangerous. Network protection expands the scope of Microsoft Defender SmartScreen to block […]
Exploit protection provides advanced protections for applications that the IT Pro can apply after the developer has compiled and distributed the software. This article helps you understand how exploit protection works, both at the policy level and at the individual mitigation level, to help you successfully build and apply Exploit Protection policies. How mitigations are […]
Exploit protection helps protect devices from malware that use exploits to spread and infect. It consists of a number of mitigations that can be applied at either the operating system level, or at the individual app level. You use the Windows Security app or PowerShell to create a set of mitigations (known as a configuration). […]
Exploit protection automatically applies a number of exploit mitigation techniques on both the operating system processes and on individual apps. Configure these settings using the Windows Security app on an individual device. Then, export the configuration as an XML file so you can deploy to other devices. Use Group Policy to distribute the XML file […]
Tip Want to experience Defender for Endpoint? Sign up for a free trial. Exploit protection helps protect against malware that uses exploits to infect devices and spread. Exploit protection consists of many mitigations that can be applied to either the operating system or individual apps. Important .NET 2.0 is not compatible with some exploit protection capabilities, specifically, […]
Exploit protection helps protect devices from malware that uses exploits to spread and infect other devices. Mitigation can be applied to either the operating system or to an individual app. Many of the features that were part of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) are included in exploit protection. (The EMET has reached its end of […]
Exploit protection automatically applies many exploit mitigation techniques to operating system processes and apps. Exploit protection is supported beginning with Windows 10, version 1709, Windows 11, and Windows Server, version 1803. Tip You can visit the Windows Defender Testground website at demo.wd.microsoft.com to confirm the feature is working and see how it works. Exploit protection works best […]
You can define an exclusion list for items that you don’t want Microsoft Defender Antivirus to scan. Such excluded items could contain threats that make your device vulnerable. This article describes some common mistake that you should avoid when defining exclusions. Before defining your exclusion lists, see Recommendations for defining exclusions. Excluding certain trusted items Certain […]