Getting started with Windows Defender Credential Guard
This week is again back to Windows. This week is all about Windows Defender Credential Guard (Credential Guard). Credential Guard is definitely not something new, it’s actually available since the beginning of Windows 10, but it’s still a little unknown and still not always used. A little awareness is on its place. Credential Guard uses virtualization-based security to isolate secrets and to make sure that only privileged access is allowed. That helps with preventing unauthorized access that can lead to known credential theft attacks, like Pass-the-Hash and Pass-the-Ticket. Besides awareness, there is also another new configuration location within Microsoft Intune that might be interesting. This post will start with a quick introduction about Credential Guard, followed with the steps to configure Credential Guard by using …