This policy setting determines whether Enhanced Phishing Protection in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warns users if they type their work or school passwords in Notepad, WordPad, or M365 Office apps like OneNote, Word, Excel, etc.
Users will be warned if they store their password in Notepad or Microsoft 365 Office Apps. This can help reduce the risk of security incidents, such as data theft ...
This policy setting enables Hardware-enforced Stack Protection for kernel-mode code. Kernel-mode data stacks are hardened with hardware-based shadow stacks, which store intended return address targets to ensure that program control flow is not tampered.
The recommended state for this setting is: Enabled: Enabled in enforcement mode.
Note: Virtualization Based Security (VBS) requires ...
This policy setting determines whether Enhanced Phishing Protection is in audit mode. This allows notifications to be sent to users regarding unsafe password events. Additionally, Enhanced Phishing Protection captures unsafe password entry events and sends diagnostic data through Microsoft Defender.
Allowing Enhanced Phishing Protection the ability to warn users about unsafe password use co ...
Description:Enhanced Sign-in Security isolates Windows Hello biometric (face and fingerprint) template data and matching operations to trusted hardware or specified memory regions.
Because the channel of communication between the sensors and the algorithm is secured, it is impossible for malware to inject or replay data in order to simulate a user signing in or to lock a user out of their m ...
Description:This policy setting controls whether winlogon sends Multiple Provider Router (MPR) notifications. MPR handles communication between the Windows operating system and the installed network providers. MPR checks the registry to determine which providers are installed on the system and the order they are cycled through.
MPR is a legacy utility that provides notifications to register ...
Disabling this setting turns off search highlights in the taskbar search box and in search home. Enabling or not configuring this setting turns on search highlights in the taskbar search box and in search home.
Fix:
(1) GPO: Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Search/Allow search highlights
(2) REG: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Sear ...
This policy setting controls whether user have access to the Windows Package Manager. Windows Package Manager is a package manager solution that consists of a command line tool and set of services for installing applications on Microsoft Windows Server 2019 (or newer).
The recommended state for this setting is: Disabled .
Fix:
(1) GPO: Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Win ...
This policy setting controls whether or not users can override the SHA256 security validation in the Windows Package Manager settings. Users should not have the ability to override SHA256 security validation.
The recommended state for this setting is: Disabled .
Fix:
(1) GPO: Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Desktop App Installer\Enable App Installer H ...
This policy setting controls which protocol and protocol settings to use for outgoing Remote Procedure Call (RPC) connections to a remote print spooler.
The recommended state for this setting is: Enabled: RPC over TCP.
Fix:
(1) GPO: Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Printers\Configure RPC connection settings: Protocol to use for outgoing RPC connections
(2) REG: HKEY_LOCA ...
This policy setting determines whether Redirection Guard is enabled for the print spooler. Redirection Guard can prevent file redirections from being used within the print spooler.
The recommended state for this setting is: Enabled: Redirection Guard Enabled
Fix:
(1) GPO: Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Printers\Configure Redirection Guard
(2) REG: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SO ...