Microsoft Windows Defender AV: Turn on e-mail scanning

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: defavemailscanning.nasl 11495 2018-09-20 10:06:25Z emoss $ Check value for Windows Defender AV: Turn on e-mail scanning Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Microsoft Windows Defender AV: Number of days before spyware definitions are outdated

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: defavdaysbeforespywareoutdated.nasl 11495 2018-09-20 10:06:25Z emoss $ Check value for Windows Defender AV: Define the number of days before spyware definitions are considered out of date Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright:...

Windows Defender Firewall: Log dropped packets

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winadvsecprofilelogdroppedpackets.nasl 10010 2018-05-29 14:43:35Z emoss $ Check value for Windows Defender Firewall: Log dropped packets Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Windows Defender Firewall: Prohibit notifications

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winadvsecprofilenotification.nasl 10010 2018-05-29 14:43:35Z emoss $ Check value for Windows Defender Firewall: Prohibit notifications Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Windows Defender Firewall: Public Profile: Apply local firewall rules

The policy determines whether the local firewall rules are merged with GP settings when connected to a public network. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

Windows Defender Firewall: Logfile size limit

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winadvsecprofilelogfilesize.nasl 10010 2018-05-29 14:43:35Z emoss $ Check value for Windows Defender Firewall: logfile size limit Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Windows Defender Firewall: Outbound connections

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winadvsecprofileoutboundcon.nasl 10010 2018-05-29 14:43:35Z emoss $ Check value for Windows Defender Firewall: Domain: Outbound connections Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Windows Defender Firewall: Logfile path

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winadvsecprofilelogfilepath.nasl 10010 2018-05-29 14:43:35Z emoss $ Check value for Windows Defender Firewall: Path to logfile Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.ne...

Windows Defender Firewall: Log successful connections

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winadvsecprofilelogsuccesspackets.nasl 10010 2018-05-29 14:43:35Z emoss $ Check value for Windows Defender Firewall: Log successful connections Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Windows Defender Firewall: Public Profile: Apply local connection security rules

The policy determines whether the local connection rules are merged with GP settings when connected to a public network. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

Windows Defender Firewall: Inbound connections

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winadvsecprofileinboundcon.nasl 10010 2018-05-29 14:43:35Z emoss $ Check value for Windows Defender Firewall: Inbound connections Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Windows Defender Firewall: firewall profiles status.

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winadvsecprofilestatus.nasl 10010 2018-05-29 14:43:35Z emoss $ Check value for Windows Defender Firewall: Enable Firewall Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net Thi...

Adding transparency and context into industry AV test results

Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson recently shared his insights on how Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Windows Defender ATP evolved to achieve important quality milestones. Our Windows Defender ATP team is committed to delivering industry-leading protection, customer choice, and...

Windows Packer Project for Defenders: DARKSURGEON

Darksurgeon is a Windows packer project to empower incident response, digital forensics, malware analysis, and network defense. Darksurgeon has three stated goals: Accelerate incident response, digital forensics, malware analysis, and network defense with a preconfigured Windows 10 environment...

Microsoft Windows Defender AV: Turn off Windows Defender Antivirus

This policy setting turns off Windows Defender Antivirus. If you enable this policy setting, Windows Defender Antivirus does not run, and computers are not scanned for malware or other potentially unwanted software. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, by default Windows Defend...

CVE-2018-5174

In the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, Windows Defender SmartScreen honors the "SEEMASKFLAGNOUI" flag associated with downloaded files and will not show any UI. Files that are unknown and potentially dangerous will be allowed to run because SmartScreen will not prompt the user for a decision, and i...

Securing the modern workplace with Microsoft 365 threat protection – part 3

This post is authored by Debraj Ghosh, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft 365 Security. Detecting ransomware in the modern workplace Over the last two weeks, we have shared with you the roots of Microsoft 365 threat protection and how Microsoft 365 threat protect helps protect the modern...

Teaming up in the war on tech support scams

Editors note: Erik Wahlstrom spoke about the far-reaching impact of tech support scams and the need for industry-wide cooperation in his RSA Conference 2018 talk Tech Scams: Its Time to Release the Hounds. Social engineering attacks like tech support scams are so common because theyre so effectiv...

Introducing Windows Defender System Guard runtime attestation

At Microsoft, we want users to be in control of their devices, including knowing the security health of these devices. If important security features should fail, users should be aware. Windows Defender System Guard runtime attestation, a new Windows platform security technology, fills this need...

Introducing Web Security Analytics

Every security team knows that the success of any security product relies heavily on the ability to maintain an optimal security configuration. Any misconfiguration can result in malicious or undesired traffic reaching the application, or worse - legitimate traffic being blocked. In addition, it...