Working with Exploit Protection to protect devices from being exploited
This week is all about Exploit Protection. An often overlooked security feature that is available in the Windows Security app, screaming for more awareness. Exploit Protection was originally introduced as one of the four main components of Windows Defender Exploit Guard (Exploit Guard). Exploit Guard itself was introduced as a major update to Microsoft Defender Antivirus, in Windows 10 version 1709, and was the successor of Enhance Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET). Actually, the Exploit Protection component contains the actual replacement functionality of EMET, and more. Nowadays Exploit Protection is part of the App & browser control section in the Windows Security app, but many configuration paths still refer to Exploit Guard. In this post I’ll start with an introduction about Exploit protection, followed with the …