Getting started with Microsoft Defender Application Guard

This week is back to Windows. This week is all about Microsoft Defender Application Guard (Application Guard). Recently Application Guard functionality was added to Microsoft 365 apps for enterprise and those configuration options recently became available in Microsoft Intune. A good trigger for a new post. Application Guard uses hardware isolation to isolate untrusted sites and untrusted Office files, by running the application in an isolated Hyper-V container. That isolation makes sure that anything that happens within the isolated Hyper-V container is isolated from the host operating system. That provides an additional security layer. This post will start with a quick introduction about Application Guard, followed with the steps to configure Application Guard by using Microsoft Intune. Introduction to Microsoft Defender Application Guard Application Guard …

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