Published October 15, 2021
Author: Ash Khan

Windows 11 is available for everyone with its advanced features and User Interface. But everything comes with pros and cons. According to Microsoft, your Windows 11 can face ransomware attacks. Microsoft has released the final version of its security configuration baseline settings for Windows 11 and has encouraged customers to enable Tamper Protection in Microsoft Defender for Endpoints to defend themselves from ransomware operations. 

Threat actors will be unable to change security settings due to tamper-proof safeguards. Microsoft provides assistance in the form of security baselines to help organizations navigate the sea of security-related settings and tweakable parameters. This is one of the reasons Microsoft products like Microsoft office 365 are efficient and secure.  

As a component of its direction for Windows 11, the product monster requested that its clients empower the Tamper Protection element to keep dangerous entertainers from superseding the security provisions for installation.  

According to Microsoft security advisor Rick Munck “While you are authorizing the Microsoft Security Baseline for Windows 11 (and additionally Windows 10, as well as Windows Server 2022/2019/2016), try to empower Microsoft Defender for Endpoint’s “Alter Protection” to add a layer of insurance against Human Operated Ransomware.” 

A security compliance toolkit is available for this purpose as per Munck. It permits undertaking security chairmen to download, investigate, test, alter and store Microsoft-suggested security arrangement baselines while looking at them against other security setups. 

Microsoft recommends that customers use Defender’s Tamper Protection feature as part of the update. Microsoft clarifies the purpose of the Temper protection feature by saying, “Agitators like to impair your security provisions to get simpler admittance to your information, to introduce malware, or to in any case take advantage of your information, character, and gadgets. Alter assurance keeps these sorts of things from happening.” 

Alter assurance works by guaranteeing Defender’s solid, default esteems are locked, and can’t be changed through the Registry Editor, PowerShell cmdlets, or by means of Group Policy, which are generally taken advantage of by malware to impair the security measures. Our IT consultants are here to provide consultation about your system security anytime. 

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