Using Smart App Control as starting point for Windows Defender Application Control

This week is all about Smart App Control and Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC). Starting with Windows 11, version 22H2, Microsoft introduced Smart App Control for additional protection for consumers against threats by blocking apps that are malicious, untrusted, or potentially unwanted. Smart App Control is based on WDAC and works in a similar way. It provides basic protection rules that can also be reused within an enterprise environment. Smart App Control on itself is only available on a fresh installation of Windows 11, version 22H2, and not after an upgrade. On enterprise managed devices, Smart App Control is automatically turned off. That doesn’t mean, however, that Smart App Control doesn’t provide any useful standard configurations. Smart App Control can be an excellent starting point, …

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