We can implement AppLocker rules using group policy in a Windows domain to limit the execution of arbitrary executable files. AppLocker takes the approach of denying all executables from running unless they have specifically been whitelisted and allowed.
Control Flow Guard (CFG) is used to help protect against memory corruption vulnerabilities in .NET software. We can implement Control Flow Guard in Visual Studio 2015 to help protect against these problems in Windows.
This post will help you determine usage scenarios for encrypting file system (EFS) in Windows Server 2016 as per the 70-744 objectives. We’ll cover how you can use EFS to encrypt files in Windows.
We can configure Windows Defender scans using Windows PowerShell as an alternative to configuring them through the graphical user interface. This allows us to integrate Windows Defender features into PowerShell scripts, and configure settings that are not available through the graphical user interface.
While Windows Defender can be configured at a high level through the graphical user interface, we can instead configure Windows Defender using group policy which gives us more control and allows us to roll out the settings to the whole domain from a central location.
By default SMB version 1.0 is enabled in Windows 10. As this was last needed in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 it’s quite old, newer versions of SMB are more secure and have additional features. If you no longer need to support these older versions of SMB file shares, it’s a good idea to disable SMB version 1.0, or even remove it completely, as a number of recent vulnerabilities specifically affect SMB version 1.
By default SMB version 1.0 is enabled in Windows Server 2016. As this was last needed in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 it’s quite old, newer versions of SMB are more secure and have additional features. If you no longer need to support these older versions of SMB file shares, it’s a good idea to disable SMB version 1.0, or even remove it completely, as a number of recent vulnerabilities specifically affect SMB version 1.
It’s important for Windows Defender to stay up to date so that new known variants of malware can be detected. This can be achieved if we integrate Windows Defender with WSUS and Windows update, which we’ll show you how to do here in Windows Server 2016.
This post will cover the 70-744 exam objective “implement antimalware solution with Windows Defender”, we’ll show you how to work with Windows Defender in Windows Server 2016.
By default Windows Server 2016 comes with Windows Defender installed and running. This is an improvement over Windows Server 2012, which had nothing by default although with some work you could install Windows Defender manually, however this solution was of course not officially supported.
In this post we’ll show you how to configure BitLocker group policy settings. When you enable BitLocker Drive Encryption a number of default settings will be used, such as the strength of the encryption. We can customize these using Group Policy in an Active Directory based domain, allowing us to control the BitLocker settings that get rolled out to all machines in the domain.