Configuring and managing exploit protection
This section will begin by defining exploit protection, explaining how the features work collectively, and discussing what this set of features brings to the Windows Server operating system (as well as Windows 10/11). We will review all the available exploit protection mitigation options and learn how to evaluate and enable these mitigations using the configuration and management tools available to us.
What is exploit protection?
Exploit protection from Microsoft Defender for Endpoint provides IT pros with a feature-rich set of advanced protections that can be applied to applications that have been compiled and distributed to devices, or at an overall operating system level. Exploit protection was designed as an on-by-default security system for all devices based on the original Microsoft tool called Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET). This exploit protection feature contains mitigations that help prevent intrusion by malicious...