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+# Level 1 Enterprise Basic Security configuration 
+
+**Applies to**  
+
+-   Windows 10
+
+Level 1 is the minimum security configuration for an enterprise device.
+Microsoft recommends the following configuration for level 1 devices.
+
+## Hardware
+
+Devices targeting Level 1 should support the following hardware features:
+
+- [Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/oem-tpm)
+- [Bitlocker Drive Encryption](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/oem-bitlocker)
+- [UEFI Secure Boot](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/oem-secure-boot)
+- Drivers and Firmware Distributed through Windows Update
+
+## Policies
+
+The policies in level 1 enforce a reasonable security level while minimizing the impact to users or to applications. 
+Microsoft recommends using [the rings methodology](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/deployment/update/waas-deployment-rings-windows-10-updates) for these security configurations and controls, noting that the timeline can generally be short given the limited potential impact of the security controls.
+
+### Security Template Policies
+
+| Feature                 | Policy Setting                                                                                   | Policy Value                                            | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
+|-------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| Account Lockout | Account Lockout Duration | 15 | The number of minutes a locked-out account remains locked out before automatically becoming unlocked. If an account lockout threshold is defined, the account lockout duration must be greater than or equal to the reset time. |
+| Account Lockout | Account Lockout Threshold | 10 | The number of failed logon attempts that causes a user account to be locked out. A locked-out account cannot be used until it is reset by an administrator or until the lockout duration for the account has expired. |
+| Account Lockout | Reset account lockout counter after | 15 | The number of minutes that must elapse after a failed logon attempt before the failed logon attempt counter is reset to 0 bad logon attempts. |
+| Password Policy | Enforce password history | 24 | The number of unique new passwords that must be associated with a user account before an old password can be reused. |
+| Password Policy | Minimum password length | 14 | The least number of characters that a password for a user account may contain. |
+| Password Policy | Password must meet complexity requirements | Enabled | Determines whether passwords must meet complexity requirements:<br>1) Not contain the user's samAccountName (Account Name) value or entire displayName (Full Name value). Neither check is case sensitive.<br>The samAccountName is checked in its entirety only to determine whether it is part of the password. If the samAccountName is less than three characters long, this check is skipped. The displayName is parsed for delimiters: commas, periods, dashes or hyphens, underscores, spaces, pound signs, and tabs. If any of these delimiters are found, the displayName is split and all parsed sections (tokens) are confirmed to not be included in the password. Tokens that are less than three characters are ignored, and substrings of the tokens are not checked. For example, the name "Erin M. Hagens" is split into three tokens: "Erin", "M", and "Hagens". Because the second token is only one character long, it is ignored. Therefore, this user could not have a password that included either "erin" or "hagens" as a substring anywhere in the password.<br>2) Contain characters from three of the following categories:<br>- Uppercase letters of European languages (A through Z, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)<br>- Lowercase letters of European languages (a through z, sharp-s, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)<br>-  Base 10 digits (0 through 9)<br>-Non-alphanumeric characters (special characters):<br>(~!@#$%^&*_-+=`\|\\(){}[]:;"'<>,.?/)<br>Currency symbols such as the Euro or British Pound are not counted as special characters for this policy setting.<br>- Any Unicode character that is categorized as an alphabetic character but is not uppercase or lowercase. This includes Unicode characters from Asian languages. |
+| Password Policy | Store passwords using reversible encryption | Disabled | Determines whether the operating system stores passwords using reversible encryption. |
+| Security Options | Accounts: Limit local account use of blank passwords to console logon only  | Enabled  | This security setting determines whether local accounts that are not password protected can be used to log on from locations other than the physical computer console. If enabled, local accounts that are not password protected will only be able to log on at the computer's keyboard.  |
+| Security Options | Audit: Force audit policy subcategory settings (Windows Vista or later) to override audit policy category settings | Enabled  | Windows Vista and later versions of Windows allow audit policy to be managed in a more precise way using audit policy subcategories. Setting audit policy at the category level will override the new subcategory audit policy feature. Group Policy only allows audit policy to be set at the category level, and existing Group Policy may override the subcategory settings of new machines as they are joined to the domain or upgraded. To allow audit policy to be managed using subcategories without requiring a change to Group Policy, there is a new registry value in Windows Vista and later versions, SCENoApplyLegacyAuditPolicy, which prevents the application of category-level audit policy from Group Policy and from the Local Security Policy administrative tool. |
+| Security Options | Domain member: Digitally encrypt or sign secure channel data (always)  | Enabled  | This security setting determines whether all secure channel traffic initiated by the domain member must be signed or encrypted. This setting determines whether all secure channel traffic initiated by the domain member meets minimum security requirements. Specifically, it determines whether all secure channel traffic initiated by the domain member must be signed or encrypted. If this policy is enabled, then the secure channel will not be established unless either signing or encryption of all secure channel traffic is negotiated. If this policy is disabled, then encryption and signing of all secure channel traffic is negotiated with the Domain Controller in which case the level of signing and encryption depends on the version of the Domain Controller and the settings of the following two policies:<br>- Domain member: Digitally encrypt secure channel data (when possible)<br>- Domain member: Digitally sign secure channel data (when possible)  |
+| Security Options | Domain member: Digitally encrypt secure channel data (when possible)  | Enabled  | This security setting determines whether a domain member attempts to negotiate encryption for all secure channel traffic that it initiates. If enabled, the domain member will request encryption of all secure channel traffic. If the domain controller supports encryption of all secure channel traffic, then all secure channel traffic will be encrypted. Otherwise, only logon information transmitted over the secure channel will be encrypted. If this setting is disabled, then the domain member will not attempt to negotiate secure channel encryption.  |
+| Security Options | Domain member: Digitally sign secure channel data (when possible)  | Enabled  | This security setting determines whether a domain member attempts to negotiate signing for all secure channel traffic that it initiates. If enabled, the domain member will request signing of all secure channel traffic. If the Domain Controller supports signing of all secure channel traffic, then all secure channel traffic will be signed, which ensures that it cannot be tampered with in transit.  |
+| Security Options | Domain member: Disable machine account password changes | Disabled | Determines whether a domain member periodically changes its computer account password. |
+| Security Options | Domain member: Maximum machine account password age | 30 | Determines how often a domain member will attempt to change its computer account password |
+| Security Options | Domain member: require strong (Windows 2000 or later) session key | Enabled | Determines whether 128-bit key strength is required for encrypted secure channel data |
+| Security Options | Interactive logon: Machine inactivity limit | 900 | The number of seconds of inactivity before the session is locked |
+| Security Options | Interactive logon: Smart card removal behavior  | Lock Workstation  | This security setting determines what happens when the smart card for a logged-on user is removed from the smart card reader. If you click **Lock Workstation** in the **Properties** for this policy, the workstation is locked when the smart card is removed, allowing users to leave the area, take their smart cards with them, and still maintain protected sessions. For this setting to work beginning with Windows Vista, the Smart Card Removal Policy service must be started.  |
+| Security Options | Microsoft network client: Digitally sign communications (always)  | Enabled  | This security setting determines whether packet signing is required by the SMB client component.  |
+| Security Options | Microsoft network client: Send unencrypted password to third party SMB servers| Disabled | If this security setting is enabled, the Server Message Block (SMB) redirector can send plaintext passwords to non-Microsoft SMB servers that do not support password encryption during authentication. Sending unencrypted passwords is a security risk. |
+| Security Options | Microsoft network server: Digitally sign communications (always)  | Enabled  | This security setting determines whether packet signing is required by the SMB server component.  |
+| Security Options | Network access: Allow anonymous SID/Name translation | Disabled | This security setting determines if an anonymous user can request security identifier (SID) attributes for another user. If this policy is enabled, a user with knowledge of an administrator's SID could contact a computer that has this policy enabled and use the SID to get the administrator's name. |
+| Security Options | Network access: Do not allow anonymous enumeration of SAM accounts  | Enabled  | This security setting determines what additional permissions will be granted for anonymous connections to the computer. Windows allows anonymous users to perform certain activities, such as enumerating the names of domain accounts and network shares. This is convenient, for example, when an administrator wants to grant access to users in a trusted domain that does not maintain a reciprocal trust. This security option allows additional restrictions to be placed on anonymous connections as follows: Enabled: Do not allow enumeration of SAM accounts. This option replaces Everyone with Authenticated Users in the security permissions for resources.  |
+| Security Options | Network access: Do not allow anonymous enumeration of SAM accounts and shares  | Enabled  | This security setting determines whether anonymous enumeration of SAM accounts and shares is allowed. Windows allows anonymous users to perform certain activities, such as enumerating the names of domain accounts and network shares. This is convenient, for example, when an administrator wants to grant access to users in a trusted domain that does not maintain a reciprocal trust. If you do not want to allow anonymous enumeration of SAM accounts and shares, then enable this policy.  |
+| Security Options | Network access: Restrict anonymous access to Named Pipes and Shares  | Enabled  | When enabled, this security setting restricts anonymous access to shares and pipes to the settings for:<br>- Network access: Named pipes that can be accessed anonymously<br>- Network access: Shares that can be accessed anonymously  |
+| Security Options | Network access: Restrict clients allowed to make remote calls to SAM | O:BAG:BAD:(A;;RC;;;BA) | This policy setting allows you to restrict remote RPC connections to SAM. If not selected, the default security descriptor will be used. |
+| Security Options | Network security: Allow LocalSystem NULL session fallback | Disabled | Allow NTLM to fall back to NULL session when used with LocalSystem |
+| Security Options | Network security: Do not store LAN Manager hash value on next password change | Enabled | This security setting determines if, at the next password change, the LAN Manager (LM) hash value for the new password is stored. The LM hash is relatively weak and prone to attack, as compared with the cryptographically stronger Windows NT hash. Since the LM hash is stored on the local computer in the security database the passwords can be compromised if the security database is attacked. |
+| Security Options | Network security: LAN Manager authentication level | Send NTLMv2 response only. Refuse LM & NTLM | This security setting determines which challenge/response authentication protocol is used for network logons. This choice affects the level of authentication protocol used by clients, the level of session security negotiated, and the level of authentication accepted by servers as follows: Send NTLMv2 response only\\refuse LM & NTLM: Clients use NTLMv2 authentication only and use NTLMv2 session security if the server supports it; domain controllers refuse LM and NTLM (accept only NTLMv2 authentication). |
+| Security Options | Network security: LDAP client signing requirements  | Negotiate signing  | This security setting determines the level of data signing that is requested on behalf of clients issuing LDAP BIND requests, as follows: Negotiate signing: If Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer (TLS\\SSL) has not been started, the LDAP BIND request is initiated with the LDAP data signing option set in addition to the options specified by the caller. If TLS\\SSL has been started, the LDAP BIND request is initiated with the options that are specified by the caller.  |
+| Security Options | Network security: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP based (including secure RPC) clients | Require NTLMv2 session security and Require 128-bit encryption | This security setting allows a client to require the negotiation of 128-bit encryption and/or NTLMv2 session security. These values are dependent on the LAN Manager Authentication Level security setting value. |
+| Security Options | Network security: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP based (including secure RPC) servers | Require NTLMv2 session security and Require 128-bit encryption | This security setting allows a server to require the negotiation of 128-bit encryption and/or NTLMv2 session security. These values are dependent on the LAN Manager Authentication Level security setting value. |
+| Security Options | System objects: Strengthen default permissions of internal system objects (e.g. Symbolic Links)  | Enabled  | This security setting determines the strength of the default discretionary access control list (DACL) for objects. Active Directory maintains a global list of shared system resources, such as DOS device names, mutexes, and semaphores. In this way, objects can be located and shared among processes. Each type of object is created with a default DACL that specifies who can access the objects and what permissions are granted. If this policy is enabled, the default DACL is stronger, allowing users who are not administrators to read shared objects but not allowing these users to modify shared objects that they did not create.  |
+| Security Options | User Account Control: Admin approval mode for the built-in administrator | Enabled | The built-in Administrator account uses Admin Approval Mode - any operation that requires elevation of privilege will prompt to user to approve that operation |
+| Security Options | User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode | Prompt for consent on the secure desktop | When an operation requires elevation of privilege, the user is prompted on the secure desktop to enter a privileged user name and password. If the user enters valid credentials, the operation continues with the user's highest available privilege. |
+| Security Options | User Account Control: Detect application installations and prompt for elevation | Enabled | When an application installation package is detected that requires elevation of privilege, the user is prompted to enter an administrative user name and password. If the user enters valid credentials, the operation continues with the applicable privilege. |
+| Security Options | User Account Control: Only elevate UIAccess applications that are installed in secure locations | Enabled | This policy setting controls whether applications that request to run with a User Interface Accessibility (UIAccess) integrity level must reside in a secure location in the file system. Secure locations are limited to the following: - …\\Program Files\\, including subfolders - …\\Windows\\system32\\ - …\\Program Files (x86)\\, including subfolders for 64-bit versions of Windows |
+| Security Options | User Account Control: Run all Administrators in admin approval mode | Enabled | This policy must be enabled, and related UAC policy settings must also be set appropriately to allow the built-in Administrator account and all other users who are members of the Administrators group to run in Admin Approval Mode. |
+| Security Options | User Account Control: Virtualize file and registry write failures to per-user locations | Enabled | This policy setting controls whether application write failures are redirected to defined registry and file system locations. This policy setting mitigates applications that run as administrator and write run-time application data to %ProgramFiles%, %Windir%, %Windir%\\system32, or HKLM\\Software. |
+| User Rights Assignments | Access Credential Manager as a trusted caller | No One (blank) | This setting is used by Credential Manager during Backup/Restore. No accounts should have this privilege, as it is only assigned to Winlogon. Users saved credentials might be compromised if this privilege is given to other entities.|
+| User Rights Assignment | Access this computer from the network | Administrators; Remote Desktop Users | This user right determines which users and groups can connect to the computer over the network. Remote Desktop Services are not affected by this user right. |
+| User Rights Assignments | Act as part of the operating system | No One (blank) | This user right allows a process to impersonate any user without authentication. The process can therefore gain access to the same local resources as that user. |
+| User Rights Assignments | Allow log on locally | Administrators; Users | Determines which users can log on to the computer |
+| User Rights Assignments | Back up files and directories | Administrators | Determines which users can bypass file and directory, registry, and other persistent object permissions for the purposes of backing up the system |
+| User Rights Assignments | Create a pagefile | Administrators | Determines which users and groups can call an internal application programming interface (API) to create and change the size of a page file |
+| User Rights Assignments | Create a token object | No One (blank) | Determines which accounts can be used by processes to create a token that can then be used to get access to any local resources when the process uses an internal application programming interface (API) to create an access token. |
+| User Rights Assignments | Create global objects | Administrators; LOCAL SERVICE; NETWORK SERVICE; SERVICE | This security setting determines whether users can create global objects that are available to all sessions. |
+| User Rights Assignments | Create permanent shared objects | No One (blank) | Determines which accounts can be used by processes to create a directory object using the object manager |
+| User Rights Assignments | Debug programs | Administrators | Determines which users can attach a debugger to any process or to the kernel. Developers who are debugging their own applications do not need to be assigned this user right. Developers who are debugging new system components will need this user right to be able to do so. This user right provides complete access to sensitive and critical operating system components. |
+| User Rights Assignment | Enable computer and user accounts to be trusted for delegation | No One (blank) | This security setting determines which users can set the Trusted for Delegation setting on a user or computer object. |
+| User Rights Assignments | Force shutdown from a remote system  | Administrators | Determines which users can shut down a computer from a remote location on the network. Misuse of this user right can result in a denial of service. |
+| User Rights Assignment | Impersonate a client after authentication | Administrators, SERVICE, Local Service, Network Service | Assigning this privilege to a user allows programs running on behalf of that user to impersonate a client. Requiring this user right for this kind of impersonation prevents an unauthorized user from convincing a client to connect (for example, by remote procedure call (RPC) or named pipes) to a service that they have created and then impersonating that client, which can elevate the unauthorized user's permissions to administrative or system levels. |
+| User Rights Assignments | Load and unload device drivers | Administrators | Determines which users can dynamically load and unload device drivers or other code in to kernel mode. This user right does not apply to Plug and Play device drivers. |
+| User Rights Assignment | Lock pages in memory | No One (blank) | Determines which accounts can use a process to keep data in physical memory, which prevents the system from paging the data to virtual memory on disk. Exercising this privilege could significantly affect system performance by decreasing the amount of available random-access memory (RAM). |
+| User Rights Assignments | Manage auditing and security log | Administrators | Determines which users can specify object access auditing options for individual resources, such as files, Active Directory objects, and registry keys. |
+| User Rights Assignments | Modify firmware environment variables  | Administrators | Determines who can modify firmware environment values. Firmware environment variables are settings stored in the nonvolatile RAM of non-x86-based computers. The effect of the setting depends on the processor. |
+| User Rights Assignment | Perform volume maintenance tasks | Administrators | This security setting determines which users and groups can run maintenance tasks on a volume, such as remote defragmentation. |
+| User Rights Assignment | Profile single process | Administrators | This security setting determines which users can use performance monitoring tools to monitor the performance of non-system processes. |
+| User Rights Assignments | Restore files and directories | Administrators | Determines which users can bypass file, directory, registry, and other persistent objects permissions when restoring backed up files and directories, and determines which users can set any valid security principal as the owner of an object |
+| User Rights Assignments | Take ownership of files or other objects | Administrators | Determines which users can take ownership of any securable object in the system, including Active Directory objects, files and folders, printers, registry keys, processes, and threads |
+
+### Advanced Audit Policies
+
+| Feature | Policy Setting | Policy Value | Description |
+|---------|----------------|--------------|-------------|
+| Account Logon | Audit Credential Validation | Success and Failure | Audit events generated by validation tests on user account logon credentials. Occurs only on the computer that is authoritative for those credentials. |
+| Account Management | Audit Security Group Management | Success | Audit events generated by changes to security groups, such as creating, changing or deleting security groups, adding or removing members, or changing group type. |
+| Account Management | Audit User Account Management | Success and Failure | Audit changes to user accounts. Events include creating, changing, deleting user accounts; renaming, disabling, enabling, locking out, or unlocking accounts; setting or changing a user account’s password; adding a security identifier (SID) to the SID History of a user account; configuring the Directory Services Restore Mode password; changing permissions on administrative user accounts; backing up or restoring Credential Manager credentials |
+| Detailed Tracking | Audit PNP Activity | Success | Audit when plug and play detects an external device |
+| Detailed Tracking | Audit Process Creation | Success | Audit events generated when a process is created or starts; the name of the application or user that created the process is also audited |
+| Logon/ Logoff | Audit Account Lockout | Failure | Audit events generated by a failed attempt to log on to an account that is locked out |
+| Logon/ Logoff | Audit Group Membership | Success | Audit the group membership information in the user's logon token. Events in this subcategory are generated on the computer on which a logon session is created. For an interactive logon, the security audit event is generated on the computer that the user logged on to. For a network logon, such as accessing a shared folder on the network, the security audit event is generated on the computer hosting the resource. |
+| Logon/ Logoff | Audit Logon | Success and Failure | Audit events generated by user account logon attempts on the computer |
+| Logon/ Logoff | Audit Other Logon / Logoff Events | Success and Failure | Audit other logon/logoff-related events that are not covered in the “Logon/Logoff” policy setting, such as Terminal Services session disconnections, new Terminal Services sessions locking and unlocking a workstation, invoking or dismissing a screen saver, detection of a Kerberos replay attack, or access to a wireless network granted to a user or computer account |
+| Logon/ Logoff | Audit Special Logon | Success | Audit events generated by special logons such as the use of a special logon, which is a logon that has administrator-equivalent privileges and can be used to elevate a process to a higher level, or a logon by a member of a Special Group (Special Groups enable you to audit events generated when a member of a certain group has logged on to your network) |
+| Object Access | Audit Detailed File Share | Failure | Audit attempts to access files and folders on a shared folder; the Detailed File Share setting logs an event every time a file or folder is accessed |
+| Object Access | Audit File Share | Success and Failure | Audit attempts to access a shared folder; an audit event is generated when an attempt is made to access a shared folder |
+| Object Access | Audit Other Object Access Events | Success and Failure | Audit events generated by the management of task scheduler jobs or COM+ objects |
+| Object Access | Audit Removable Storage | Success and Failure | Audit user attempts to access file system objects on a removable storage device. A security audit event is generated only for all objects for all types of access requested. |
+| Policy Change | Audit Audit Policy Change | Success | Audit changes in the security audit policy settings |
+| Policy Change | Audit Authentication Policy Change | Success | Audit events generated by changes to the authentication policy |
+| Policy Change | Audit MPSSVC Rule-Level Policy Change | Success and Failure | Audit events generated by changes in policy rules used by the Microsoft Protection Service (MPSSVC). This service is used by Windows Firewall. |
+| Policy Change | Audit Other Policy Change Events | Failure | Audit events generated by other security policy changes that are not audited in the policy change category, such as Trusted Platform Module (TPM) configuration changes, kernel-mode cryptographic self tests, cryptographic provider operations, cryptographic context operations or modifications, applied Central Access Policies (CAPs) changes, or boot Configuration Data (BCD) modifications |
+| Privilege Use | Audit Sensitive Privilege Use | Success and Failure | Audit events generated when sensitive privileges (user rights) are used |
+| System | Audit Other System Events | Success and Failure | Audit any of the following events: Startup and shutdown of the Windows Firewall service and driver, security policy processing by the Windows Firewall Service, cryptography key file and migration operations. |
+| System | Audit Security State Change | Success | Audit events generated by changes in the security state of the computer such as startup and shutdown of the computer, change of system time, recovering the system from CrashOnAuditFail, which is logged after a system restarts when the security event log is full and the CrashOnAuditFail registry entry is configured. |
+| System | Audit Security System Extension | Success | Audit events related to security system extensions or services |
+| System | Audit System Integrity | Success and Failure | Audit events that violate the integrity of the security subsystem |
+
+### Windows Defender Firewall Policies
+
+| Feature | Policy Setting | Policy Value | Description |
+|---------|----------------|--------------|-------------|
+| Domain Profile / State | Firewall State | On | Enables the firewall when connected to the domain profile |
+| Domain Profile / State | Inbound Connections | Block | Unsolicited inbound connections for which there is no rule allowing the connection will be blocked in the domain profile |
+| Domain Profile / State | Outbound Connections | Allow | Outbound connections for which there is no rule blocking the connection will be allowed in the domain profile |
+| Domain Profile / Settings | Display a notification | No | The display of notifications to the user is enabled when a program is blocked from receiving an inbound connection in the domain profile |
+| Domain Profile / Logging | Size Limit | 16384 | Sets the firewall log file size for a domain connection |
+| Domain Profile / Logging | Log dropped packets | Yes | Enables logging of dropped packets for a domain connection |
+| Domain Profile / Logging | Log successful connections | Yes | Enables logging of successful connections for a domain connection |
+| Private Profile / State | Firewall State | On | Enables the firewall when connected to the private profile |
+| Private Profile / State | Inbound Connections | Block | Unsolicited inbound connections for which there is no rule allowing the connection will be blocked in the private profile |
+| Private Profile / State | Outbound Connections | Allow | Outbound connections for which there is no rule blocking the connection will be allowed in the private profile |
+| Private Profile / Settings | Display a notification | No | The display of notifications to the user is enabled when a program is blocked from receiving an inbound connection in the private profile |
+| Private Profile / Logging | Size Limit | 16384 | Sets the firewall log file size for a private connection |
+| Private Profile / Logging | Log dropped packets | Yes | Enables logging of dropped packets for a private connection |
+| Private Profile / Logging | Log successful connections | Yes | Enables logging of successful connections for a private connection |
+| Public Profile / State | Firewall State | On | Enables the firewall when connected to the public profile |
+| Public Profile / State | Inbound Connections | Block | Unsolicited inbound connections for which there is no rule allowing the connection will be blocked in the public profile |
+| Public Profile / State | Outbound Connections | Allow | Outbound connections for which there is no rule blocking the connection will be allowed in the public profile |
+| Public Profile / Settings | Display a notification | No | The display of notifications to the user is enabled when a program is blocked from receiving an inbound connection in the public profile |
+| Public Profile / Settings | Apply local firewall rules | No  | Users cannot create new firewall rules |
+| Public Profile / Settings | Apply local connection security rules | No  | Ensures local connection rules will not be merged with Group Policy settings in the domain |
+| Public Profile / Logging | Size Limit | 16384 | Sets the firewall log file size for a public connection |
+| Public Profile / Logging | Log dropped packets | Yes | Enables logging of dropped packets for a public connection |
+| Public Profile / Logging | Log successful connections | Yes | Enables logging of successful connections for a public connection |
+
+### Computer Policies
+
+| Feature | Policy Setting | Policy Value | Description |
+|---------|----------------|--------------|-------------|
+| LAPS | Enable local admin password management | Enabled | Activates LAPS for the device |
+| MS Security Guide | Apply UAC restrictions to local accounts on network logon | Enabled | Filters the user account token for built-in administrator accounts for network logons |
+| MS Security Guide | Configure SMB v1 client driver  | Disable driver (recommended) | Configure the startup mode for the kernel mode driver that implements client-side SMBv1 processing (MrxSmb10). This setting includes a dropdown that is activated when the Enabled radio button is selected and that controls the “Start” registry value in HKLM\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\MrxSmb10. |
+| MS Security Guide | Configure SMB v1 server | Disabled | Disable or enable server-side processing of the SMBv1 protocol |
+| MS Security Guide | Enabled Structured Exception Handling Overwrite Protection (SEHOP)| Enabled | This feature is designed to block exploits that use the Structured Exception Handler (SEH) overwrite technique. This protection mechanism is provided at run-time. Therefore, it helps protect applications regardless of whether they have been compiled with the latest improvements, such as the /SAFESEH option. We recommend that Windows users who are running any of the above operating systems enable this feature to improve the security profile of their systems. |
+| MS Security Guide | NetBT NodeType Configuration | P-node (recommended) | The NetBT NodeType setting determines what methods NetBT uses to register and resolve names:<br/>- A B-node computer uses broadcasts.<br/>- A P-node computer uses only point-to-point name queries to a name server (WINS).<br/>- An M-node computer broadcasts first, and then queries the name server.<br/>- An H-node computer queries the name server first, and then broadcasts.<br/>Resolution through LMHOSTS or DNS follows these methods. If the NodeType value is present, it overrides any DhcpNodeType value.<br/>If neither NodeType nor DhcpNodeType is present, the computer uses B-node if there are no WINS servers configured for the network, or H-node if there is at least one WINS server configured. |
+| MS Security Guide | WDigest Authentication | Disabled | When the WDigest Authentication protocol is enabled, plain text passwords are stored in the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) exposing them to theft. WDigest is disabled by default in Windows 10. This setting ensures this is enforced. |
+| MSS | MSS: (DisableIPSourceRouting IPv6) IP source routing protection level (Protects against packet spoofing) | Highest Protection, source routing is completely disabled | Allowing source routed network traffic allows attackers to obscure their identity and location. |
+| MSS | MSS: (DisableIPSourceRouting) IP source routing protection level (Protects against packet spoofing) | Highest Protection, source routing is completely disabled | Allowing source routed network traffic allows attackers to obscure their identity and location. |
+| MSS | MSS: (EnableICMPRedirect) Allow ICMP redirects to override OSPF generated routes | Disabled | Allowing ICMP redirect of routes can lead to traffic not being routed properly. When disabled, this forces ICMP to be routed via shortest path first. |
+| MSS | MSS: (NoNameReleaseOnDemand) Allow the computer to ignore NetBIOS name release requests except from WINS servers | Enabled | Prevents a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against a WINS server. The DoS consists of sending a NetBIOS Name Release Request to the server for each entry in the server's cache, causing a response delay in the normal operation of the server's WINS resolution capability. |
+| Network / DNS Client | Turn off multicast name resolution | Enabled | Specifies that link local multicast name resolution (LLMNR) is disabled on client computers.<br/>LLMNR is a secondary name resolution protocol. With LLMNR, queries are sent using multicast over a local network link on a single subnet from a client computer to another client computer on the same subnet that also has LLMNR enabled. LLMNR does not require a DNS server or DNS client configuration, and provides name resolution in scenarios in which conventional DNS name resolution is not possible.<br/>If you enable this policy setting, LLMNR will be disabled on all available network adapters on the client computer.<br/>If you disable this policy setting, or you do not configure this policy setting, LLMNR will be enabled on all available network adapters.|
+| Network / Lanman Workstation | Enable insecure guest logons | Disabled | Determines if the SMB client will allow insecure guest logons to an SMB server |
+| Network / Network Connections | Prohibit use of Internet Connection Sharing on your DNS domain network | Enabled | Determines whether administrators can enable and configure the Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) feature of an Internet connection and if the ICS service can run on the computer. |
+| Network / Network Provider | Hardened UNC Paths | \\\\\*\\SYSVOL and \\\\\*\\NETLOGON RequireMutualAuthentication = 1, RequireIntegrity = 1 | This policy setting configures secure access to UNC paths. If you enable this policy, Windows only allows access to the specified UNC paths after fulfilling additional security requirements. |
+| Network / Windows Connection Manager | Prohibit connection to non-domain networks when connected to domain authenticated network | Enabled | This policy setting prevents computers from connecting to both a domain-based network and a non-domain-based network at the same time. |
+| System / Credentials Delegation | Encryption Oracle Remediation | Force Updated Clients | Enryption Oracle Remediation |
+| System / Credentials Delegation | Remote host allows delegation of non-exportable credentials | Enabled | When using credential delegation, devices provide an exportable version of credentials to the remote host. This exposes users to the risk of credential theft from attackers on the remote host. If you enable this policy setting, the host supports Restricted Admin or Remote Credential Guard mode. |
+| System / Device Installation / Device Installation Restrictions  | Prevent installation of devices that match any of these device IDs  | [[[main setting]]] = Enabled <br/> Also apply to matching devices that are already installed = True <br/> 1 = PCI\CC_0C0A  | This policy setting allows you to specify a list of Plug and Play hardware IDs and compatible IDs for devices that Windows is prevented from installing. This policy setting takes precedence over any other policy setting that allows Windows to install a device. if you enable this policy setting, Windows is prevented from installing a device whose hardware ID or compatible ID appears in a list that you create. If you enable this policy setting on a remote desktop server, the policy setting affects redirection of the specified devices from a remote desktop client to the remote desktop server. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, devices can be installed and updated as allowed or prevented by other policy settings.  |
+| System / Device Installation / Device Installation Restrictions  | Prevent installation of devices using drivers that match these device setup classes | [[[main setting]]] = Enabled <br/> Also apply to matching devices that are already installed = True <br/> 1 = {d48179be-ec20-11d1-b6b8-00c04fa372a7}  | This policy setting allows you to specify a list of device setup class globally unique identifiers (GUIDs) for device drivers that Windows is prevented from installing. This policy setting takes precedence over any other policy setting that allows Windows to install a device. if you enable this policy setting, Windows is prevented from installing or updating device drivers whose device setup class GUIDs appear in the list you create. If you enable this policy setting on a remote desktop server, the policy setting affects redirection of the specified devices from a remote desktop client to the remote desktop server. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Windows can install and update devices as allowed or prevented by other policy settings.  |
+| System / Early Launch Antimalware | Boot-Start Driver Initialization Policy | Good, unknown and bad but critical | Allows you to specify which boot-start drivers are initialized based on a classification determined by an Early Launch Antimalware boot-start driver. The Early Launch Antimalware boot-start driver can return the following classifications for each boot-start driver:<br/>- Good: The driver has been signed and has not been tampered with.<br/>- Bad: The driver has been identified as malware. It is recommended that you do not allow known bad drivers to be initialized.<br/>- Bad, but required for boot: The driver has been identified as malware, but the computer cannot successfully boot without loading this driver.<br/>- Unknown: This driver has not been attested to by your malware detection application and has not been classified by the Early Launch Antimalware boot-start driver.<br/>If you enable this policy setting you will be able to choose which boot-start drivers to initialize the next time the computer is started.<br/>If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the boot start drivers determined to be Good, Unknown or Bad but Boot Critical are initialized and the initialization of drivers determined to be Bad is skipped.<br/>If your malware detection application does not include an Early Launch Antimalware boot-start driver or if your Early Launch Antimalware boot-start driver has been disabled, this setting has no effect and all boot-start drivers are initialized. |
+| System / Group Policy | Configure registry policy processing | Process even if the Group Policy objects have not changed = True<br/>Do not apply during periodic background processing = False | Determines when registry policies are updated.<br/>This policy setting affects all policies in the Administrative Templates folder and any other policies that store values in the registry. It overrides customized settings that the program implementing a registry policy set when it was installed.<br/>If you enable this policy setting, you can use the check boxes provided to change the options. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, it has no effect on the system.<br/>The "Do not apply during periodic background processing" option prevents the system from updating affected policies in the background while the computer is in use. When background updates are disabled, policy changes will not take effect until the next user logon or system restart. <br/>The "Process even if the Group Policy objects have not changed" option updates and reapplies the policies even if the policies have not changed. Many policy implementations specify that they are updated only when changed. However, you might want to update unchanged policies, such as reapplying a desired policy setting in case a user has changed it. |
+| System / Internet Communication Management / Internet Communication settings| Turn off Internet download for Web publishing and online ordering wizards | Enabled | This policy setting specifies whether Windows should download a list of providers for the web publishing and online ordering wizards. These wizards allow users to select from a list of companies that provide services such as online storage and photographic printing. By default, Windows displays providers downloaded from a Windows website in addition to providers specified in the registry. |
+| System / Kernel DMA Protection | Enumeration policy for external devices incompatible with Kernel DMA Protection | Block all | Enumeration policy for external DMA-capable devices incompatible with DMA remapping. This policy only takes effect when Kernel DMA Protection is enabled and supported by the system. Note: this policy does not apply to 1394, PCMCIA or ExpressCard devices. |
+| System / Power Management / Sleep Settings | Require a password when a computer wakes (on battery) | Enabled | Specifies whether the user is prompted for a password when the system resumes from sleep |
+| System / Power Management / Sleep Settings | Require a password when a computer wakes (plugged in) | Enabled | Specifies whether the user is prompted for a password when the system resumes from sleep |
+| System / Remote Procedure Call | Restrict Unauthenticated RPC clients | Authenticated | Controls how the RPC server runtime handles unauthenticated RPC clients connecting to RPC servers. |
+| System / Service Control Manager Settings / Security Settings | Enable svchost.exe mitigation options | Enabled | Enables process mitigation options on svchost.exe processes.<br/>If you enable this policy setting, built-in system services hosted in svchost.exe processes will have stricter security policies enabled on them. This includes a policy requiring all binaries loaded in these processes to be signed by microsoft, as well as a policy disallowing dynamically-generated code.<br/>If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, these stricter security settings will not be applied. |
+| Windows Components / App runtime | Allow Microsoft accounts to be optional | Enabled | Lets you control whether Microsoft accounts are optional for Windows Store apps that require an account to sign in. This policy only affects Windows Store apps that support it. |
+| Windows Components / AutoPlay Policies | Disallow Autoplay for non-volume devices | Enabled | Disallows AutoPlay for MTP devices like cameras or phones. |
+| Windows Components / AutoPlay Policies | Set the default behavior for AutoRun | Do not execute any autorun commands | Sets the default behavior for Autorun commands. |
+| Windows Components / AutoPlay Policies | Turn off Autoplay | All Drives | Allows you to turn off the Autoplay feature. |
+| Windows Components / Biometrics / Facial Features | Configure enhanced anti-spoofing | Enabled | Determines whether enhanced anti-spoofing is required for Windows Hello face authentication |
+| Windows Components / BitLocker Drive Encryption | Disable new DMA devices when this computer is locked | Enabled | Allows you to block direct memory access (DMA) for all Thunderbolt hot pluggable PCI downstream ports until a user logs into Windows |
+| Windows Components / BitLocker Drive Encryption / Operating System Drives | Allow enhanced PINs for startup | Enabled | Allows you to configure whether enhanced startup PINs are used with BitLocker |
+| Windows Components / Event Log Service / Application | Specify the maximum log file size (KB) | 32768 | Specifies the maximum size of the log file in kilobytes. |
+| Windows Components / Event Log Service / Security | Specify the maximum log file size (KB) | 196608 | Specifies the maximum size of the log file in kilobytes. |
+| Windows Components / Event Log Service / System | Specify the maximum log file size (KB) | Enabled: 32768 | Specifies the maximum size of the log file in kilobytes. |
+| Windows Components / File Explorer | Configure Windows Defender SmartScreen | [[[main setting]]] = Enabled <br/> Pick one of the following settings = Warn and prevent bypass | Configure whether to turn on Windows Defender SmartScreen to provide warning messages to help protect your employees from potential phishing scams and malicious software|
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer | Prevent managing SmartScreen Filter | On | Prevents the user from managing SmartScreen Filter, which warns the user if the website being visited is known for fraudulent attempts to gather personal information through "phishing," or is known to host malware. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer | Specify use of ActiveX Installer Service for installation of ActiveX controls | Enabled | This policy setting allows you to specify how ActiveX controls are installed. If you enable this policy setting, ActiveX controls are installed only if the ActiveX Installer Service is present and has been configured to allow the installation of ActiveX controls. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, ActiveX controls, including per-user controls, are installed through the standard installation process. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer | Turn off the Security Settings Check feature | Disabled | This policy setting turns off the Security Settings Check feature, which checks Internet Explorer security settings to determine when the settings put Internet Explorer at risk. If you enable this policy setting, the feature is turned off. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the feature is turned on. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel | Prevent ignoring certificate errors | Enabled | This policy setting prevents the user from ignoring Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificate errors that interrupt browsing (such as "expired", "revoked", or "name mismatch" errors) in Internet Explorer. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Advanced Page | Allow software to run or install even if the signature is invalid | Disabled | This policy setting allows you to manage whether software, such as ActiveX controls and file downloads, can be installed or run by the user even though the signature is invalid. An invalid signature might indicate that someone has tampered with the file. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Advanced Page | Check for server certificate revocation | Enabled | Allows you to manage whether Internet Explorer will check revocation status of servers' certificates |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Advanced Page | Check for signatures on downloaded programs | Enabled | This policy setting allows you to manage whether Internet Explorer checks for digital signatures (which identifies the publisher of signed software and verifies it hasn't been modified or tampered with) on user computers before downloading executable programs. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Advanced Page | Turn off encryption support | Use TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 | This policy setting allows you to turn off support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0, TLS 1.1, TLS 1.2, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 2.0, or SSL 3.0 in the browser. TLS and SSL are protocols that help protect communication between the browser and the target server. When the browser attempts to set up a protected communication with the target server, the browser and server negotiate which protocol and version to use. The browser and server attempt to match each other’s list of supported protocols and versions, and they select the most preferred match. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page | Turn on certificate address mismatch warning | Enabled | This policy setting allows you to turn on the certificate address mismatch security warning. When this policy setting is turned on, the user is warned when visiting Secure HTTP (HTTPS) websites that present certificates issued for a different website address. This warning helps prevent spoofing attacks. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Access data sources across domains | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether Internet Explorer can access data from another security zone using the Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) or ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Allow cut copy or paste operations from the clipboard via script | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether scripts can perform a clipboard operation (for example, cut, copy, and paste) in a specified region. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Allow drag and drop or copy and paste files | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether users can drag files or copy and paste files from a source within the zone. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Allow loading of XAML files  | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage the loading of Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) files. XAML is an XML-based declarative markup language commonly used for creating rich user interfaces and graphics that take advantage of the Windows Presentation Foundation. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Allow only approved domains to use ActiveX controls without prompt  | Enable  | This policy setting controls whether the user is prompted to allow ActiveX controls to run on websites other than the website that installed the ActiveX control. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Allow only approved domains to use the TDC ActiveX control  | Enable  | This policy setting controls whether the user can run the TDC ActiveX control on websites. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Allow scripting of Internet Explorer WebBrowser controls  | Disable | This policy setting determines whether a page can control embedded WebBrowser controls via script.  |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Allow script-initiated windows without size or position constraints  | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage restrictions on script-initiated pop-up windows and windows that include the title and status bars.  |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Allow scriptlets  | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether the user can run scriptlets.  |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Allow updates to status bar via script  | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether script can update the status bar within the zone. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Allow VBScript to run in Internet Explorer | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether VBScript can be run on pages from the specified zone in Internet Explorer. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Automatic prompting for file downloads | Disable | This policy setting determines whether users will be prompted for non-user-initiated file downloads. Regardless of this setting, users will receive file download dialogs for user-initiated downloads. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Don't run antimalware programs against ActiveX controls | Disable | Determines whether Internet Explorer runs antimalware programs against ActiveX controls, to check if they're safe to load on pages. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Download unsigned ActiveX controls | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether users may download unsigned ActiveX controls from the zone. Such code is potentially harmful, especially when coming from an untrusted zone. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Enable dragging of content from different domains across windows | Disable | This policy setting allows you to set options for dragging content from one domain to a different domain when the source and destination are in different windows. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Enable dragging of content from different domains within a window | Disable | This policy setting allows you to set options for dragging content from one domain to a different domain when the source and destination are in the same window. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Include local path when user is uploading files to a server | Disable | This policy setting controls whether local path information is sent when the user is uploading a file via an HTML form. If the local path information is sent, some information may be unintentionally revealed to the server. For instance, files sent from the user's desktop may contain the user name as a part of the path. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage ActiveX controls not marked as safe. If you enable this policy setting, ActiveX controls are run, loaded with parameters, and scripted without setting object safety for untrusted data or scripts. This setting is not recommended, except for secure and administered zones. This setting causes both unsafe and safe controls to be initialized and scripted, ignoring the Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting option. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Java permissions | Disable Java | This policy setting allows you to manage permissions for Java applets. If you enable this policy setting, you can choose options from the drop-down box. Custom, to control permissions settings individually. Disable Java to prevent any applets from running. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Launching applications and files in an IFRAME | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether applications may be run, and files may be downloaded from an IFRAME reference in the HTML of the pages in this zone. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Logon options | Prompt for user name and password | This policy setting allows you to manage settings for logon options. Prompt for user name and password to query users for user IDs and passwords. After a user is queried, these values can be used silently for the remainder of the session. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Navigate windows and frames across different domains  | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage the opening of windows and frames and access of applications across different domains.  |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Run .NET Framework-reliant components not signed with Authenticode | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether .NET Framework components that are not signed with Authenticode can be executed from Internet Explorer. These components include managed controls referenced from an object tag and managed executables referenced from a link. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Run .NET Framework-reliant components signed with Authenticode | Enabled: Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether .NET Framework components that are signed with Authenticode can be executed from Internet Explorer. These components include managed controls referenced from an object tag and managed executables referenced from a link. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Show security warning for potentially unsafe files | Prompt | This policy setting controls whether the "Open File - Security Warning" message appears when the user tries to open executable files or other potentially unsafe files (from an intranet file share by using File Explorer, for example). |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Turn on Cross-Site Scripting Filter | Enabled: Enable | Controls whether the Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Filter will detect and prevent cross-site script injections into websites in this zone. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Turn on Protected Mode | Enable | Allows you to turn on Protected Mode. Protected Mode helps protect Internet Explorer from exploited vulnerabilities by reducing the locations that Internet Explorer can write to in the registry and the file system. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Turn on SmartScreen Filter scan | Enable | Controls whether SmartScreen Filter scans pages in this zone for malicious content. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Use Pop-up Blocker | Enabled: Enable | Allows you to manage whether unwanted pop-up windows appear. Pop-up windows that are opened when the end user clicks a link are not blocked. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Userdata persistence | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage the preservation of information in the browser's history, in favorites, in an XML store, or directly within a Web page saved to disk. When a user returns to a persisted page, the state of the page can be restored if this policy setting is appropriately configured. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Web sites in less privileged Web content zones can navigate into this zone  | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether Web sites from less privileged zones, such as Restricted Sites, can navigate into this zone. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Intranet Zone | Don't run antimalware programs against ActiveX controls | Enabled: Disable | Determines whether Internet Explorer runs antimalware programs against ActiveX controls, to check if they're safe to load on pages. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Intranet Zone | Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe | Enabled: Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage ActiveX controls not marked as safe. If you enable this policy setting, ActiveX controls are run, loaded with parameters, and scripted without setting object safety for untrusted data or scripts. This setting is not recommended, except for secure and administered zones. This setting causes both unsafe and safe controls to be initialized and scripted, ignoring the Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting option. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Intranet Zone | Java permissions | Enabled: High Safety | Allows you to manage permissions for Java applets. High Safety enables applets to run in their sandbox. Disable Java to prevent any applets from running. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Local Machine Zone | Don't run antimalware programs against ActiveX controls | Disable | Determines whether Internet Explorer runs antimalware programs against ActiveX controls, to check if they're safe to load on pages. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Local Machine Zone | Java permissions | Disable Java | This policy setting allows you to manage permissions for Java applets. If you enable this policy setting, you can choose options from the drop-down box. Custom, to control permissions settings individually. Disable Java to prevent any applets from running. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Locked-down Internet Zone | Turn on SmartScreen Filter scan | Enable | Controls whether SmartScreen Filter scans pages in this zone for malicious content. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Locked-Down Intranet Zone | Java permissions | Disable Java | This policy setting allows you to manage permissions for Java applets. If you enable this policy setting, you can choose options from the drop-down box. Custom, to control permissions settings individually. Disable Java to prevent any applets from running. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Locked-Down Local Machine Zone | Java permissions | Disable Java | This policy setting allows you to manage permissions for Java applets. If you enable this policy setting, you can choose options from the drop-down box. Custom, to control permissions settings individually. Disable Java to prevent any applets from running. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Locked-Down Restricted Sites Zone | Java permissions | Disable Java | This policy setting allows you to manage permissions for Java applets. If you enable this policy setting, you can choose options from the drop-down box. Custom, to control permissions settings individually. Disable Java to prevent any applets from running. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Locked-Down Restricted Sites Zone | Turn on SmartScreen Filter scan | Enabled: Enable | Controls whether SmartScreen Filter scans pages in this zone for malicious content. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Locked-Down Trusted Sites Zone | Java permissions | Disable Java | Allows you to configure policy settings according to the default for the selected security level, such Low, Medium, or High. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Access data sources across domains | Enabled: Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether Internet Explorer can access data from another security zone using the Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) or ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Allow active scripting | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether script code on pages in the zone is run. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Allow binary and script behaviors | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage dynamic binary and script behaviors: components that encapsulate specific functionality for HTML elements to which they were attached. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Allow cut copy or paste operations from the clipboard via script | Enabled: Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether scripts can perform a clipboard operation (for example, cut, copy, and paste) in a specified region. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Allow drag and drop or copy and paste files | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether users can drag files or copy and paste files from a source within the zone. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Allow file downloads | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether file downloads are permitted from the zone. This option is determined by the zone of the page with the link causing the download, not the zone from which the file is delivered. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Allow loading of XAML files | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage the loading of Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) files. XAML is an XML-based declarative markup language commonly used for creating rich user interfaces and graphics that take advantage of the Windows Presentation Foundation. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Allow META REFRESH | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether a user's browser can be redirected to another Web page if the author of the Web page uses the Meta Refresh setting (tag) to redirect browsers to another Web page. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Allow only approved domains to use ActiveX controls without prompt | Enable | This policy setting controls whether the user is prompted to allow ActiveX controls to run on websites other than the website that installed the ActiveX control. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Allow only approved domains to use the TDC ActiveX control | Enable | This policy setting controls whether the user can run the TDC ActiveX control on websites. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Allow scripting of Internet Explorer WebBrowser controls | Disable | This policy setting determines whether a page can control embedded WebBrowser controls via script. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Allow script-initiated windows without size or position constraints | Enabled: Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage restrictions on script-initiated pop-up windows and windows that include the title and status bars. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Allow scriptlets | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether the user can run scriptlets. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Allow updates to status bar via script | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether script can update the status bar within the zone. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Allow VBScript to run in Internet Explorer | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether VBScript can be run on pages from the specified zone in Internet Explorer. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Automatic prompting for file downloads | Disable | This policy setting determines whether users will be prompted for non-user-initiated file downloads. Regardless of this setting, users will receive file download dialogs for user-initiated downloads. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Don't run antimalware programs against ActiveX controls | Disable | Determines whether Internet Explorer runs antimalware programs against ActiveX controls, to check if they're safe to load on pages. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Download signed ActiveX controls | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether users may download signed ActiveX controls from a page in the zone |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Download unsigned ActiveX controls | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether users may download unsigned ActiveX controls from the zone. Such code is potentially harmful, especially when coming from an untrusted zone. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Enable dragging of content from different domains across windows | Disable | This policy setting allows you to set options for dragging content from one domain to a different domain when the source and destination are in different windows. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Enable dragging of content from different domains within a window | Disable | This policy setting allows you to set options for dragging content from one domain to a different domain when the source and destination are in the same window. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Include local path when user is uploading files to a server | Disable | This policy setting controls whether local path information is sent when the user is uploading a file via an HTML form. If the local path information is sent, some information may be unintentionally revealed to the server. For instance, files sent from the user's desktop may contain the user name as a part of the path. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage ActiveX controls not marked as safe. If you enable this policy setting, ActiveX controls are run, loaded with parameters, and scripted without setting object safety for untrusted data or scripts. This setting is not recommended, except for secure and administered zones. This setting causes both unsafe and safe controls to be initialized and scripted, ignoring the Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting option. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Java permissions | Disable Java | This policy setting allows you to manage permissions for Java applets. If you enable this policy setting, you can choose options from the drop-down box. Custom, to control permissions settings individually. Disable Java to prevent any applets from running. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Launching applications and files in an IFRAME | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether applications may be run, and files may be downloaded from an IFRAME reference in the HTML of the pages in this zone. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Logon options | Anonymous logon | This policy setting allows you to manage settings for logon options. Anonymous logon to disable HTTP authentication and use the guest account only for the Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Navigate windows and frames across different domains | Enabled: Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage the opening of windows and frames and access of applications across different domains. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Run .NET Framework-reliant components not signed with Authenticode | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether .NET Framework components that are not signed with Authenticode can be executed from Internet Explorer. These components include managed controls referenced from an object tag and managed executables referenced from a link. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Run .NET Framework-reliant components signed with Authenticode | Enabled: Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether .NET Framework components that are signed with Authenticode can be executed from Internet Explorer. These components include managed controls referenced from an object tag and managed executables referenced from a link. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Run ActiveX controls and plugins | Enabled: Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether ActiveX controls and plug-ins can be run on pages from the specified zone. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether an ActiveX control marked safe for scripting can interact with a script. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Scripting of Java applets | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether applets are exposed to scripts within the zone. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Show security warning for potentially unsafe files | Disable | This policy setting controls whether the "Open File - Security Warning" message appears when the user tries to open executable files or other potentially unsafe files (from an intranet file share by using File Explorer, for example). If you disable this policy setting, these files do not open. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Turn on Cross-Site Scripting Filter | Enable | Controls whether the Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Filter will detect and prevent cross-site script injections into websites in this zone. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Turn on Protected Mode | Enable | Allows you to turn on Protected Mode. Protected Mode helps protect Internet Explorer from exploited vulnerabilities by reducing the locations that Internet Explorer can write to in the registry and the file system. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Turn on SmartScreen Filter scan | Enabled: Enable | Controls whether SmartScreen Filter scans pages in this zone for malicious content. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Use Pop-up Blocker | Enable      | Allows you to manage whether unwanted pop-up windows appear. Pop-up windows that are opened when the end user clicks a link are not blocked. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Userdata persistence | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage the preservation of information in the browser's history, in favorites, in an XML store, or directly within a Web page saved to disk. When a user returns to a persisted page, the state of the page can be restored if this policy setting is appropriately configured. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Restricted Sites Zone | Web sites in less privileged Web content zones can navigate into this zone | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether Web sites from less privileged zones, such as Internet sites, can navigate into this zone. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Trusted Sites Zone | Don't run antimalware programs against ActiveX controls | Disable | Determines whether Internet Explorer runs antimalware programs against ActiveX controls, to check if they're safe to load on pages. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Trusted Sites Zone | Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage ActiveX controls not marked as safe. If you enable this policy setting, ActiveX controls are run, loaded with parameters, and scripted without setting object safety for untrusted data or scripts. This setting is not recommended, except for secure and administered zones. This setting causes both unsafe and safe controls to be initialized and scripted, ignoring the Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting option. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Trusted Sites Zone | Java permissions | High Safety | This policy setting allows you to manage permissions for Java applets. If you enable this policy setting, you can choose options from the drop-down box. Custom, to control permissions settings individually. High Safety enables applets to run in their sandbox. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Security Features | Allow fallback to SSL 3.0 (Internet Explorer) | No sites | Allows you to block an insecure fallback to SSL 3.0. When this policy is enabled, Internet Explorer will attempt to connect to sites using SSL 3.0 or below when TLS 1.0 or greater fails. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Security Features / Add-on Management | Remove "Run this time" button for outdated ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer | Enabled | This policy setting allows you to stop users from seeing the "Run this time" button and from running specific outdated ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Security Features / Add-on Management | Turn off blocking of outdated ActiveX controls for Internet Explorer | Disabled | This policy setting determines whether Internet Explorer blocks specific outdated ActiveX controls. Outdated ActiveX controls are never blocked in the Intranet Zone. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Security Features / Consistent Mime Handling | Internet Explorer Processes | Enabled | Internet Explorer uses Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) data to determine file handling procedures for files received through a Web server. This policy setting determines whether Internet Explorer requires that all file-type information provided by Web servers be consistent. For example, if the MIME type of a file is text/plain but the MIME sniff indicates that the file is really an executable file, Internet Explorer renames the file by saving it in the Internet Explorer cache and changing its extension. If you enable this policy setting, Internet Explorer requires consistent MIME data for all received files. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Security Features / Mime Sniffing Safety Feature | Internet Explorer Processes | Enabled | This policy setting determines whether Internet Explorer MIME sniffing will prevent promotion of a file of one type to a more dangerous file type. If you enable this policy setting, MIME sniffing will never promote a file of one type to a more dangerous file type. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Security Features / MK Protocol Security Restriction | Internet Explorer Processes | Enabled | The MK Protocol Security Restriction policy setting reduces attack surface area by preventing the MK protocol. Resources hosted on the MK protocol will fail. If you enable this policy setting, the MK Protocol is prevented for File Explorer and Internet Explorer, and resources hosted on the MK protocol will fail. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Security Features / Notification Bar | Internet Explorer Processes | Enabled | This policy setting allows you to manage whether the Notification bar is displayed for Internet Explorer processes when file or code installs are restricted. By default, the Notification bar is displayed for Internet Explorer processes. If you enable this policy setting, the Notification bar will be displayed for Internet Explorer Processes. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Security Features / Protection from Zone Elevation | Internet Explorer Processes | Enabled | Internet Explorer places restrictions on each Web page it opens. The restrictions are dependent upon the location of the Web page (Internet, Intranet, Local Machine zone, etc.). Web pages on the local computer have the fewest security restrictions and reside in the Local Machine zone, making the Local Machine security zone a prime target for malicious users. Zone Elevation also disables JavaScript navigation if there is no security context. If you enable this policy setting, any zone can be protected from zone elevation by Internet Explorer processes. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Security Features / Restrict ActiveX Install | Internet Explorer Processes | Enabled | This policy setting enables blocking of ActiveX control installation prompts for Internet Explorer processes. If you enable this policy setting, prompting for ActiveX control installations will be blocked for Internet Explorer processes. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Security Features / Restrict File Download | Internet Explorer Processes | Enabled | This policy setting enables blocking of file download prompts that are not user initiated. If you enable this policy setting, file download prompts that are not user initiated will be blocked for Internet Explorer processes. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Security Features / Scripted Window Security Restrictions | Internet Explorer Processes | Enabled | Internet Explorer allows scripts to programmatically open, resize, and reposition windows of various types. The Window Restrictions security feature restricts popup windows and prohibits scripts from displaying windows in which the title and status bars are not visible to the user or obfuscate other Windows' title and status bars. If you enable this policy setting, popup windows and other restrictions apply for File Explorer and Internet Explorer processes. |
+| Windows Components / Microsoft Edge | Configure Windows Defender SmartScreen | Enabled | Configures whether to turn on Windows Defender SmartScreen. Windows Defender SmartScreen provides warning messages to help protect your employees from potential phishing scams and malicious software. By default, Windows Defender SmartScreen is turned on. If you enable this setting, Windows Defender SmartScreen is turned on and employees can't turn it off. If you disable this setting, Windows Defender SmartScreen is turned off and employees can't turn it on. If you don't configure this setting, employees can choose whether to use Windows Defender SmartScreen. |
+| Windows Components / Microsoft Edge | Prevent certificate error overrides | Enabled | Web security certificates are used to ensure a site your users go to is legitimate, and in some circumstances encrypts the data. With this policy, you can specify whether to prevent users from bypassing the security warning to sites that have SSL errors. If enabled, overriding certificate errors are not allowed. If disabled or not configured, overriding certificate errors are allowed. |
+| Windows Components / Remote Desktop Services / Remote Desktop Connection Client | Do not allow passwords to be saved | Enabled | Controls whether passwords can be saved on this computer from Remote Desktop Connection. |
+| Windows Components / Remote Desktop Services / Remote Desktop Session Host / Security | Always prompt for password upon connection | Enabled | This policy setting specifies whether Remote Desktop Services always prompts the client for a password upon connection. You can use this setting to enforce a password prompt for users logging on to Remote Desktop Services, even if they already provided the password in the Remote Desktop Connection client. |
+| Windows Components / Remote Desktop Services / Remote Desktop Session Host / Security | Require secure RPC communication | Enabled | Specifies whether a Remote Desktop Session Host server requires secure RPC communication with all clients or allows unsecured communication. |
+| Windows Components / Remote Desktop Services / Remote Desktop Session Host / Security | Set client connection encryption level | High Level | Specifies whether to require the use of a specific encryption level to secure communications between client computers and RD Session Host servers during Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections. This policy only applies when you are using native RDP encryption. However, native RDP encryption (as opposed to SSL encryption) is not recommended. This policy does not apply to SSL encryption. |
+| Windows Components / RSS Feeds | Prevent downloading of enclosures | Enabled | This policy setting prevents the user from having enclosures (file attachments) downloaded from a feed to the user's computer. if you enable this policy setting, the user cannot set the Feed Sync Engine to download an enclosure through the Feed property page. A developer cannot change the download setting through the Feed APIs. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the user can set the Feed Sync Engine to download an enclosure through the Feed property page. A developer can change the download setting through the Feed APIs. |
+| Windows Components / Search | Allow indexing of encrypted files | Disabled | This policy setting allows encrypted items to be indexed. if you enable this policy setting, indexing will attempt to decrypt and index the content (access restrictions will still apply). If you disable this policy setting the search service components (including non-Microsoft components) are expected not to index encrypted items or encrypted stores. This policy setting is not configured by default. If you do not configure this policy setting the local setting configured through Control Panel will be used. By default, the Control Panel setting is set to not index encrypted content. When this setting is enabled or disabled the index is rebuilt completely. Full volume encryption (such as BitLocker Drive Encryption or a non-Microsoft solution) must be used for the location of the index to maintain security for encrypted files. |
+| Windows Components / Windows Defender Antivirus / MAPS | Join Microsoft MAPS | Advanced MAPS | Allows you to join Microsoft MAPS. Microsoft MAPS is the online community that helps you choose how to respond to potential threats. The community also helps stop the spread of new malicious software infections. |
+| Windows Components / Windows Defender Antivirus | Turn off Windows Defender Antivirus | Disabled | Turns off Windows Defender Antivirus |
+| Windows Components / Windows Defender Antivirus / MAPS | Send file samples when further analysis is required | Enabled: Send safe samples | Configures behavior of samples submission when opt-in for MAPS telemetry is set |
+| Windows Components / Windows Defender Antivirus / Real-time Protection | Turn off real-time protection | Disabled | Turns off real-time protection prompts for known malware detection |
+| Windows Components / Windows Defender Antivirus / Real-time Protection | Turn on behavior monitoring | Enabled | Allows you to configure behavior monitoring. |
+| Windows Components / Windows Defender Antivirus / Scan | Scan removable drives | Enabled | Allows you to manage whether to scan for malicious software and unwanted software in the contents of removable drives, such as USB flash drives, when running a full scan. |
+| Windows Components / Windows Defender Antivirus / Scan | Specify the interval to run quick scans per day | 24 | Allows you to specify an interval at which to perform a quick scan. The time value is represented as the number of hours between quick scans. Valid values range from 1 (every hour) to 24 (once per day). |
+| Windows Components / Windows Defender SmartScreen / Explorer | Configure Windows Defender SmartScreen | [[[main setting]]] = Enabled <br/> Pick one of the following settings = Warn and prevent bypass | Turn Windows Defender SmartScreen on or off. SmartScreen helps protect PCs by warning users before running potentially malicious programs downloaded from the Internet. This warning is presented as an interstitial dialog shown before running an app that has been downloaded from the Internet and is unrecognized or known to be malicious. No dialog is shown for apps that do not appear to be suspicious. Some information is sent to Microsoft about files and programs run on PCs with this feature enabled. If you enable this policy, SmartScreen will be turned on for all users.  Its behavior can be controlled by the following options: <br/>- Warn and prevent bypass<br/>- Warn<br/>If you enable this policy with the "Warn and prevent bypass" option, SmartScreen's dialogs will not present the user with the option to disregard the warning and run the app. SmartScreen will continue to show the warning on subsequent attempts to run the app. If you enable this policy with the "Warn" option, SmartScreen's dialogs will warn the user that the app appears suspicious, but will permit the user to disregard the warning and run the app anyway.  SmartScreen will not warn the user again for that app if the user tells SmartScreen to run the app. If you disable this policy, SmartScreen will be turned off for all users.  Users will not be warned if they try to run suspicious apps from the Internet. If you do not configure this policy, SmartScreen will be enabled by default, but users may change their settings. |
+| Windows Components / Windows Defender SmartScreen / Microsoft Edge | Configure Windows Defender SmartScreen | Enabled | Turn Windows Defender SmartScreen on or off. SmartScreen helps protect PCs by warning users before running potentially malicious programs downloaded from the Internet. This warning is presented as an interstitial dialog shown before running an app that has been downloaded from the Internet and is unrecognized or known to be malicious. No dialog is shown for apps that do not appear to be suspicious. Some information is sent to Microsoft about files and programs run on PCs with this feature enabled. If you enable this policy, SmartScreen will be turned on for all users. |
+| Windows Components / Windows Ink Workspace | Allow Windows Ink Workspace | On, but disallow access above lock | Allow Windows Ink Workspace |
+| Windows Components / Windows Installer | Allow user control over installs | Disabled | Permits users to change installation options that typically are available only to system administrators |
+| Windows Components / Windows Installer | Always install with elevated privileges | Disabled | Directs Windows Installer to use elevated permissions when it installs any program on the system |
+| Windows Components / Windows Logon Options | Sign-in last interactive user automatically after a system-initiated restart | Disabled | Controls whether a device will automatically sign-in the last interactive user after Windows Update restarts the system |
+| Windows Components / Windows PowerShell | Turn on PowerShell Script Block Logging | Enabled | This policy setting enables logging of all PowerShell script input to the Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell/Operational event log. |
+| Windows Components / Windows Remote Management (WinRM) / WinRM Client | Allow Basic authentication | Disabled | This policy setting allows you to manage whether the Windows Remote Management (WinRM) client uses Basic authentication. |
+| Windows Components / Windows Remote Management (WinRM) / WinRM Client | Allow unencrypted traffic | Disabled | Manage whether the Windows Remote Management (WinRM) client sends and receives unencrypted messages over the network |
+| Windows Components / Windows Remote Management (WinRM) / WinRM Client | Disallow Digest authentication | Enabled | This policy setting allows you to manage whether the Windows Remote Management (WinRM) client uses Digest authentication. |
+| Windows Components / Windows Remote Management (WinRM) / WinRM Service | Allow Basic authentication | Disabled | This policy setting allows you to manage whether the Windows Remote Management (WinRM) service accepts Basic authentication from a remote client. |
+| Windows Components / Windows Remote Management (WinRM) / WinRM Service | Allow unencrypted traffic | Disabled | Manage whether the Windows Remote Management (WinRM) service sends and receives unencrypted messages over the network. |
+| Windows Components / Windows Remote Management (WinRM) / WinRM Service | Disallow WinRM from storing RunAs credentials | Enabled | This policy setting allows you to manage whether the Windows Remote Management (WinRM) service will not allow RunAs credentials to be stored for any plug-ins. |
+
+
+## Controls
+
+The controls enabled in level 1 enforce a reasonable security level while minimizing the impact to users and applications. 
+
+| Feature                           | Config                              | Description        |
+|-----------------------------------|-------------------------------------|--------------------|
+| [Local Admin Password Solution (LAPS)](https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=46899) | Deployed to all devices | Generates a unique local admin password to devices, mitigating many lateral traversal attacks. |
+| [Windows Defender ATP EDR](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-defender-atp/overview-endpoint-detection-response)          | Deployed to all devices             | The Windows Defender ATP endpoint detection and response (EDR) provides actionable and near real-time detection of advanced attacks. EDR helps security analysts , and aggregates alerts with the same attack techniques or attributed to the same attacker into an entity called an *incident*. An incident helps analysts prioritize alerts, collectively investigate the full scope of a breach, and respond to threats. Windows Defender ATP EDR is not expected to impact users or applications, and it can be deployed to all devices in a single step.      |
+| [Windows Defender Credential Guard](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/security/identity-protection/credential-guard/credential-guard)                 | Enabled for all compatible hardware | Windows Defender Credential Guard uses virtualization-based security to isolate secrets so that only privileged system software can access them. Unauthorized access to these secrets can lead to credential theft attacks, such as Pass-the-Hash or Pass-The-Ticket. Windows Defender Credential Guard prevents these attacks by protecting NTLM password hashes, Kerberos Ticket Granting Tickets (TGTs), and credentials stored by applications as domain credentials. There is a small risk to application compatibility, as [applications will break](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/security/identity-protection/credential-guard/credential-guard-requirements#application-requirements) if they require NTLMv1, Kerberos DES encryption, Kerberos unconstrained delegation, or extracting the Keberos TGT. As such, Microsoft recommends deploying Credential Guard using [the rings methodology](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/deployment/update/waas-deployment-rings-windows-10-updates).  |   
+| [Microsoft Edge](https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-edge/deploy/)                    | Default browser                     | Microsoft Edge in Windows 10 provides better security than Internet Explorer 11 (IE11). While you may still need to leverage IE11 for compatibility with some sites, Microsoft recommends configuring Microsoft Edge as the default browser, and building an Enterprise Mode Site List to redirect to IE11 only for those sites that require it. Microsoft recommends leveraging either Windows Analytics or Enterprise Site Discovery to build the initial Enterprise Mode Site List, and then gradually deploying this configuration using [the rings methodology](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/deployment/update/waas-deployment-rings-windows-10-updates).   |
+| [Windows Defender Application Guard](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-defender-application-guard/wd-app-guard-overview) | Enabled on compatible hardware      | Windows Defender Application Guard uses a hardware isolation approach. If an employee goes to an untrusted site through either Microsoft Edge or Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge opens the site in an isolated container, which is separate from the host operating system and enabled by Hyper-V. If the untrusted site turns out to be malicious, the isolated container protects the host PC, and the attacker can't get to your enterprise data. There is a small risk to application compatibility, as some applications may require interaction with the host PC but may not yet be on the list of trusted web sites for Application Guard. Microsoft recommends leveraging either Windows Analytics or Enterprise Site Discovery to build the initial Network Isolation Settings, and then gradually deploying this configuration using [the rings methodology](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/deployment/update/waas-deployment-rings-windows-10-updates). |
+| [Network protection](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-defender-exploit-guard/network-protection-exploit-guard) | Configure and enforce Network Protection              | Network protection helps to prevent employees from using any application to access dangerous domains that may host phishing scams, exploits, and other malicious content on the Internet. It expands the scope of Windows Defender SmartScreen to block all outbound HTTP(s) traffic that attempts to connect to low-reputation sources (based on the domain or hostname). There is a risk to application compatibility, as a result of false positives in flagged sites. Microsoft recommends deploying using the Audit / Enforce Methodology. |
+
+
+## Behaviors
+
+The behaviors recommended in level 1 enforce a reasonable security level while minimizing the impact to users or to applications.
+
+| Feature | Config            | Description |
+|---------|-------------------|-------------|
+| OS security updates | Deploy Windows Quality Updates within 7 days of release | As the time between the release of a patch and an exploit based on the reverse engineering of that patch continues to shrink, a critical aspect of security hygiene is having an engineering process that quickly validates and deploys Quality Updates that address security vulnerabilities. |
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+# Level 2 enterprise enhanced security configuration
+
+**Applies to**  
+
+-   Windows 10
+
+Level 2 is the security configuration recommended as a standard for devices where users access more sensitive information. These devices are a natural target in enterprises today. While targeting high levels of security, these recommendations do not assume a large staff of highly skilled security practitioners, and therefore should be accessible to most enterprise organizations.
+A level 2 configuration should include all the configurations from level 1 and add the following security policies, controls, and organizational behaviors.
+
+## Hardware
+
+Devices targeting level 2 should support all level 1 features, and add the following hardware features:
+
+- [Virtualization and HVCI Enabled](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/oem-vbs)
+- [Drivers and Apps HVCI-Ready](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows-hardware/test/hlk/testref/driver-compatibility-with-device-guard)
+- [Windows Hello](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/windows-hello-biometric-requirements)
+- [DMA I/O Protection](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/security/information-protection/kernel-dma-protection-for-thunderbolt) 
+
+## Policies
+
+The policies enforced in level 2 include all of the policies recommended for level 1 and adds the
+below policies to implement more controls and a more sophisticated security
+configuration than level 1. While they may have a slightly higher impact to
+users or to applications, they enforce a level of security more commensurate
+with the risks facing users with access to sensitive information. Microsoft
+recommends using [the rings methodology](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/deployment/update/waas-deployment-rings-windows-10-updates) for these security configurations and
+controls, with a moderate timeline that is anticipated to be slightly longer
+than the process in level 1.
+
+### Security Template Policies
+
+| Feature | Policy Setting | Policy Value | Description |
+|---------|----------------|--------------|-------------|
+| Security Options | User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for standard users  | Automatically deny elevation requests | This policy setting controls the behavior of the elevation prompt for standard users. Automatically deny elevation requests: When an operation requires elevation of privilege, an access denied error message is displayed. An enterprise that is running desktops as standard user may choose this setting to reduce help desk calls.  |
+| User Rights Assignments | Deny access to this computer from the network | NT AUTHORITY\\Local Account | Determines which users are prevented from accessing a computer over the network. This policy setting supersedes the Access this computer from the network policy setting if a user account is subject to both policies. |
+| User Rights Assignments | Deny log on through Remote Desktop Services | NT AUTHORITY\\Local Account | Determines which users and groups are prohibited from logging on as a Remote Desktop Services client. |
+
+### Computer Policies
+
+| Feature | Policy Setting | Policy Value | Description |
+|---------|----------------|--------------|-------------|
+| Control Panel / Personalization | Prevent enabling lock screen camera | Enabled | Disables the lock screen camera toggle switch in PC Settings and prevents a camera from being invoked on the lock screen. By default, users can enable invocation of an available camera on the lock screen. If you enable this setting, users will no longer be able to enable or disable lock screen camera access in PC Settings and the camera cannot be invoked on the lock screen. |
+| Network / WLAN Service / WLAN Settings | Allow Windows to automatically connect to suggested open hotspots to networks shared by contacts and to hotspots offering paid services | Disabled | This policy setting determines whether users can enable the following WLAN settings: "Connect to suggested open hotspots," "Connect to networks shared by my contacts," and "Enable paid services". |
+| System / Device Guard | Turn on Virtualization Based Security | - [[[main setting]]] = Enabled <br/> - Virtualization Based Protection of Code Integrity = Enabled with UEFI lock <br/> - Credential Guard Configuration = Enabled with UEFI lock <br/> - Select Platform Security Level = Secure Boot <br/> - Secure Launch Configuration = Enabled <br/> - Require UEFI Memory Attributes Table = False | Specifies whether Virtualization Based Security is enabled. Virtualization Based Security uses the Windows Hypervisor to provide support for security services. Virtualization Based Security requires Secure Boot and can optionally be enabled with the use of DMA Protections. DMA protections require hardware support and will only be enabled on correctly configured devices. |
+| System / Internet Communication Management / Internet Communication settings | Turn off downloading of print drivers over HTTP | Enabled | This policy setting specifies whether to allow this client to download print driver packages over HTTP. To set up HTTP printing non-inbox drivers need to be downloaded over HTTP. Note: This policy setting does not prevent the client from printing to printers on the Intranet or the Internet over HTTP. It only prohibits downloading drivers that are not already installed locally. if you enable this policy setting, print drivers cannot be downloaded over HTTP. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users can download print drivers over HTTP. |
+| System / Logon | Turn on convenience PIN sign-in | Disabled | This policy setting allows you to control whether a domain user can sign in using a convenience PIN. |
+| System / Remote Assistance | Configure Solicited Remote Assistance | - [[[main setting]]] = Disabled <br/> - Maximum ticket time (value) = [[[delete]]] <br/> - Maximum ticket time (units) = [[[delete]]] <br/> - Method for sending email invitations = [[[delete]]] <br/> - Permit remote control of this computer = [[[delete]]] | This policy setting allows you to turn on or turn off Solicited (Ask for) Remote Assistance on this computer. |
+| Windows Components / App Privacy | Let Windows apps activate with voice while the system is locked | Force Deny | Specifies whether Windows apps can be activated by voice while the system is locked. If you choose the "User is in control" option, employees in your organization can decide whether users can interact with applications using speech while the system is locked by using Settings > Privacy on the device. If you choose the "Force Allow" option, users can interact with applications using speech while the system is locked and employees in your organization cannot change it. If you choose the "Force Deny" option, users cannot interact with applications using speech while the system is locked and employees in your organization cannot change it. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, employees in your organization can decide whether users can interact with applications using speech while the system is locked by using Settings > Privacy on the device. This policy is applied to Windows apps and Cortana. It takes precedence of the Allow Cortana above lock policy. This policy is applicable only when Allow voice activation policy is configured to allow applications to be activated with voice. |
+| Windows Components / BitLocker Drive Encryption / Removable Data Drives | Deny write access to removable drives not protected by BitLocker  | Enabled  | This policy setting configures whether BitLocker protection is required for a computer to be able to write data to a removable data drive. If you enable this policy setting, all removable data drives that are not BitLocker-protected will be mounted as read-only. If the drive is protected by BitLocker, it will be mounted with read and write access. If the "Deny write access to devices configured in another organization" option is selected, only drives with identification fields matching the computer's identification fields will be given write access. When a removable data drive is accessed, it will be checked for valid identification field and allowed identification fields. These fields are defined by the "Provide the unique identifiers for your organization" policy setting. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, all removable data drives on the computer will be mounted with read and write access. Note: This policy setting can be overridden by the policy settings under User Configuration\\Administrative Templates\\System\\Removable Storage Access. If the "Removable Disks: Deny write access" policy setting is enabled, this policy setting will be ignored. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer | Prevent bypassing SmartScreen Filter warnings | Enabled | This policy setting determines whether the user can bypass warnings from SmartScreen Filter. SmartScreen Filter prevents the user from browsing to or downloading from sites that are known to host malicious content. SmartScreen Filter also prevents the execution of files that are known to be malicious. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer | Prevent bypassing SmartScreen Filter warnings about files that are not commonly downloaded from the Internet | Enabled | This policy setting determines whether the user can bypass warnings from SmartScreen Filter. SmartScreen Filter warns the user about executable files that Internet Explorer users do not commonly download from the Internet. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer  | Prevent per-user installation of ActiveX controls | Enabled | This policy setting allows you to prevent the installation of ActiveX controls on a per-user basis. If you enable this policy setting, ActiveX controls cannot be installed on a per-user basis. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer | Security Zones: Do not allow users to add/delete sites | Enabled | Prevents users from adding or removing sites from security zones. A security zone is a group of Web sites with the same security level. If you enable this policy, the site management settings for security zones are disabled. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer | Security Zones: Do not allow users to change policies | Enabled | Prevents users from changing security zone settings. A security zone is a group of Web sites with the same security level. If you enable this policy, the Custom Level button and security-level slider on the Security tab in the Internet Options dialog box are disabled. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer | Security Zones: Use only machine settings | Enabled | Applies security zone information to all users of the same computer. A security zone is a group of Web sites with the same security level. If you enable this policy, changes that the user makes to a security zone will apply to all users of that computer. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer | Turn off Crash Detection | Enabled | This policy setting allows you to manage the crash detection feature of add-on Management. If you enable this policy setting, a crash in Internet Explorer will exhibit behavior found in Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 and earlier, namely, to invoke Windows Error Reporting. All policy settings for Windows Error Reporting continue to apply. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page / Internet Zone | Download signed ActiveX controls | Disable | This policy setting allows you to manage whether users may download signed ActiveX controls from a page in the zone. |
+| Windows Components / Microsoft Edge | Prevent bypassing Windows Defender SmartScreen prompts for files | Enabled | This policy setting lets you decide whether employees can override the Windows Defender SmartScreen warnings about downloading unverified files. If you enable this setting, employees can't ignore Windows Defender SmartScreen warnings and they are blocked from downloading the unverified files. If you disable or don't configure this setting, employees can ignore Windows Defender SmartScreen warnings and continue the download process. |
+| Windows Components / Windows Defender SmartScreen / Microsoft Edge | Prevent bypassing Windows Defender SmartScreen prompts for sites | Enabled | Lets you decide whether employees can override the Windows Defender SmartScreen warnings about potentially malicious websites |
+| Windows Components / Remote Desktop Services / Remote Desktop  | Do not allow drive redirection | Enabled | This policy setting specifies whether to prevent the mapping of client drives in a Remote Desktop Services session (drive redirection). By default, an RD Session Host server maps client drives automatically upon connection. Mapped drives appear in the session folder tree in File Explorer or Computer in the format \<driveletter\> on \<computername\>. You can use this policy setting to override this behavior. if you enable this policy setting, client drive redirection is not allowed in Remote Desktop Services sessions and Clipboard file copy redirection is not allowed on computers running Windows Server 2003 Windows 8 and Windows XP. If you disable this policy setting client drive redirection is always allowed. In addition, Clipboard file copy redirection is always allowed if Clipboard redirection is allowed. If you do not configure this policy setting client drive redirection and Clipboard file copy redirection are not specified at the Group Policy level. |
+| Windows Components / Windows Defender Antivirus | Configure detection for potentially unwanted applications | Enabled: Audit | Enable or disable detection for potentially unwanted applications. You can choose to block, audit, or allow when potentially unwanted software is being downloaded or attempts to install itself on your computer. |
+| Windows Components / Windows Game Recording and Broadcasting | Enables or disables Windows Game Recording and Broadcasting | Disabled | This setting enables or disables the Windows Game Recording and Broadcasting features. If you disable this setting, Windows Game Recording will not be allowed. |
+
+### User Policies
+
+| Feature | Policy Setting | Policy Value | Description |
+|---------|----------------|--------------|-------------|
+| Start Menu and Taskbar / Notifications | Turn off toast notifications on the lock screen | Enabled | Turns off toast notifications on the lock screen. |
+| Windows Components / Cloud Content | Do not suggest third-party content in the Windows spotlight | Enabled | Windows spotlight features like lock screen spotlight, suggested apps in Start menu or Windows tips will no longer suggest apps and content from third-party software publishers |
+
+### Services
+
+Microsoft recommends disabling the following services when their use is not required for a user to perform their work.
+
+| Type | Name | Description |
+|------|------|-------------|
+| Scheduled Task | XblGameSaveTask                   | Syncs save data for Xbox Live save-enabled games                                  |
+| Services       | Xbox Accessory Management Service | Manages connected Xbox accessories                                                |
+| Services       | Xbox Game Monitoring              | Monitors Xbox games currently being played                                        |
+| Services       | Xbox Live Auth Manager            | Provides authentication and authorization services for interactive with Xbox Live |
+| Services       | Xbox Live Game Save               | Syncs save data for Xbox live save enabled games                                  |
+| Services       | Xbox Live Networking Service      | Supports the Windows.Networking.XboxLive API                                      |
+
+## Controls
+
+The controls enforced in level 2 implement more controls and a more sophisticated security
+configuration than level 1. While they may have a slightly higher impact to
+users or to applications, they enforce a level of security more commensurate
+with the risks facing users with access to sensitive information. Microsoft
+recommends using the Audit/Enforce methodology for controls with an Audit mode,
+and [the rings methodology](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/deployment/update/waas-deployment-rings-windows-10-updates) for those that do not, with a moderate timeline that
+is anticipated to be slightly longer than the process in level 1.
+
+| Feature Set                                                 | Feature                                               | Description    |
+|-------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|----------------|
+| [Windows Hello for Business](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/security/identity-protection/hello-for-business/hello-identity-verification) | Configure and enforce Windows Hello for Business | In Windows 10, Windows Hello for Business replaces passwords with strong two-factor authentication on PCs and mobile devices. This authentication consists of a new type of user credential that is tied to a device and uses a biometric or PIN. Windows Hello addresses the following problems with passwords: <br/>- Strong passwords can be difficult to remember, and users often reuse passwords on multiple sites.<br/>- Server breaches can expose symmetric network credentials (passwords).<br/>- Passwords are subject to replay attacks.<br/>- Users can inadvertently expose their passwords due to phishing attacks. |
+| [Conditional Access](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/) | Configure and enforce Conditional Access rules based on <br/> - Application Risk <br/> - Session Risk | With conditional access, you can implement automated access control decisions for accessing your cloud apps that are based on conditions. Conditional access policies are enforced after the first-factor authentication has been completed. Therefore, conditional access is not intended as a first line defense for scenarios like denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, but can utilize signals from these events (e.g. the sign-in risk level, location of the request, and so on) to determine access. |
+| [Exploit protection](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-defender-exploit-guard/exploit-protection-exploit-guard) | Enforce memory protection for OS-level controls: <br>- Control flow guard (CFG)<br>- Data Execution Protection (DEP)<br>- Mandatory ASLR<br>- Bottom-Up ASLR<br>- High-entropy ASLR<br>- Validate Exception Chains (SEHOP)<br>- Validate heap integrity     | Exploit protection helps protect devices from malware that use exploits to spread and infect to other devices. It consists of several mitigations that can be applied at either the operating system level, or at the individual app level. There is a risk to application compatibility, as some applications may rely on blocked behavior (e.g. dynamically generating code without marking memory as executable). Microsoft recommends gradually deploying this configuration using [the rings methodology](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/deployment/update/waas-deployment-rings-windows-10-updates).        |        
+| [Attack Surface Reduction (ASR)](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-defender-exploit-guard/attack-surface-reduction-exploit-guard)| Configure and enforce [Attack Surface Reduction rules](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-defender-exploit-guard/attack-surface-reduction-exploit-guard#attack-surface-reduction-rules)| Attack surface reduction controls help prevent actions and apps that are typically used by exploit-seeking malware to infect machines. There is a risk to application compatibility, as some applications may rely on blocked behavior (e.g. an Office application spawning a child process). Each control has an Audit mode, and as such, Microsoft recommends the Audit / Enforce Methodology (repeated here):<br>1) Audit – enable the controls in audit mode, and gather audit data in a centralized location<br>2) Review – review the audit data to assess potential impact (both positive and negative) and configure any exemptions from the security control you need to configure<br>3) Enforce – Deploy the configuration of any exemptions and convert the control to enforce mode |
+| [Controlled Folder Access (CFA)](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-defender-exploit-guard/enable-controlled-folders-exploit-guard) | Configure and audit [Controlled Folder Access](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-defender-exploit-guard/enable-controlled-folders-exploit-guard) | Controlled folder access helps you protect valuable data from malicious apps and threats, such as ransomware. Controlled folder access is supported on Windows Server 2019 as well as Windows 10 clients. Controlled folder access works best with Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, which gives you detailed reporting into controlled folder access events and blocks as part of the usual alert investigation scenarios. <br/> All apps (any executable file, including .exe, .scr, .dll files and others) are assessed by Windows Defender Antivirus, which then determines if the app is malicious or safe. If the app is determined to be malicious or suspicious, then it will not be allowed to make changes to any files in any protected folder. <br/> Microsoft recommends the Audit / Enforce Methodology (repeated here):<br>1) Audit – enable the controls in audit mode, and gather audit data in a centralized location<br>2) Review – review the audit data to assess potential impact (both positive and negative) and configure any exemptions from the security control you need to configure<br>3) Enforce – Deploy the configuration of any exemptions and convert the control to enforce mode
+
+## Behaviors
+
+The behaviors recommended in level 2 implement a more sophisticated security process. While they may require a more sophisticated organization, they enforce
+a level of security more commensurate with the risks facing users with access to
+sensitive information.
+
+| Feature Set| Feature  | Description  |
+|------------|----------|--------------|
+| Antivirus  | Configure Protection Updates to failover to retrieval from Microsoft | Sources for Windows Defender Antivirus Protection Updates can be provided in an ordered list. If you are using internal distribution, such as SCCM or WSUS, configure Microsoft Update lower in the list as a failover.  |
+| OS Security Updates | Deploy Windows Quality Updates within 4 days | As the time between release of a patch and an exploit based on the reverse engineering of that patch continues to shrink, engineering a process that provides the ability to validate and deploy quality updates addressing known security vulnerabilities is a critical aspect of security hygiene.|
+| Helpdesk| 1:1 Administration| A simple and common model for helpdesk support is to add the Helpdesk group as a permanent member of the Local Administrators group of every device. If any device is compromised and helpdesk can connect to it, then these credentials can be used to obtain privilege on any / all other devices. Design and implement a strategy to provide helpdesk support without providing 1:all admin access – constraining the value of these Helpdesk credentials |
+
+

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+# Level 3 enterprise high security configuration
+
+**Applies to**  
+
+-   Windows 10
+
+Level 3 is the security configuration recommended as a standard for organizations with large and sophisticated security organizations, or for specific users and groups who will be uniquely targeted by adversaries. Such organizations are typically targeted by well-funded and sophisticated adversaries, and as such merit the additional constraints and controls described here.
+A level 3 configuration should include all the configurations from level 2 and level 1 and add the following security policies, controls, and organizational behaviors.
+
+## Hardware
+
+Devices targeting Level 3 should support all Level 2 and Level 1 features, and add the following hardware features:
+
+- [System Guard](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-defender-system-guard/system-guard-how-hardware-based-root-of-trust-helps-protect-windows)
+- [Modern Standby](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby)
+
+## Policies
+
+The policies enforced in level 3 include all of the policies recommended for levels 2 and 1, and adds the below policies to
+implement strict security configuration and controls. They can have a potentially significant impact to users or to applications, enforcing
+a level of security commensurate with the risks facing targeted organizations. Microsoft recommends disciplined testing and deployment using
+[the rings methodology](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/deployment/update/waas-deployment-rings-windows-10-updates).
+
+### Computer Policies
+
+| Feature  | Policy Setting  | Policy Value  | Description  |
+|----------|-----------------|---------------|--------------|
+| Control Panel / Personalization | Prevent enabling lock screen slide show | Enabled | Disables the lock screen slide show settings in PC Settings and prevents a slide show from playing on the lock screen. By default, users can enable a slide show that will run after they lock the machine. if you enable this setting, users will no longer be able to modify slide show settings in PC Settings and no slide show will ever start. |
+| System / Logon | Enumerate local users on domain-joined computers | Disabled | This policy setting allows local users to be enumerated on domain-joined computers. if you enable this policy setting, Logon UI will enumerate all local users on domain-joined computers. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the Logon UI will not enumerate local users on domain-joined computers. |
+| System / Power Management / Sleep Settings  | Allow standby states (S1-S3) when sleeping (on battery) | Disabled | This policy setting manages whether Windows can use standby states when putting the computer in a sleep state. If you enable or do not configure this policy setting Windows uses standby states to put the computer in a sleep state. If you disable this policy setting standby states (S1-S3) are not allowed. |
+| System / Power Management / Sleep Settings | Allow standby states (S1-S3) when sleeping (plugged in) | Disabled | This policy setting manages whether Windows can use standby states when putting the computer in a sleep state. If you enable or do not configure this policy setting Windows uses standby states to put the computer in a sleep state. If you disable this policy setting standby states (S1-S3) are not allowed. |
+| Windows Components / Cloud Content | Turn off Microsoft consumer experiences | Enabled | This policy setting turns off experiences that help consumers make the most of their devices and Microsoft account. if you enable this policy setting, users will no longer see personalized recommendations from Microsoft and notifications about their Microsoft account. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users may see suggestions from Microsoft and notifications about their Microsoft account. Note: This setting only applies to Enterprise and Education SKUs. |
+| Windows Components / Credential User Interface | Enumerate administrator accounts on elevation | Disabled | This policy setting controls whether administrator accounts are displayed when a user attempts to elevate a running application. By default, administrator accounts are not displayed when the user attempts to elevate a running application. if you enable this policy setting, all local administrator accounts on the PC will be displayed so the user can choose one and enter the correct password. If you disable this policy setting users will always be required to type a user name and password to elevate. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Advanced Page | Do not allow ActiveX controls to run in Protected Mode when Enhanced Protected Mode is enabled | Enabled | This policy setting prevents ActiveX controls from running in Protected Mode when Enhanced Protected Mode is enabled. When a user has an ActiveX control installed that is not compatible with Enhanced Protected Mode and a website attempts to load the control, Internet Explorer notifies the user and gives the option to run the website in regular Protected Mode. This policy setting disables this notification and forces all websites to run in Enhanced Protected Mode. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Advanced Page | Turn on 64-bit tab processes when running in Enhanced Protected Mode on 64-bit versions of Windows | Enabled | This policy setting determines whether Internet Explorer 11 uses 64-bit processes (for greater security) or 32-bit processes (for greater compatibility) when running in Enhanced Protected Mode on 64-bit versions of Windows. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Advanced Page | Turn on Enhanced Protected Mode | Enabled | Enhanced Protected Mode provides additional protection against malicious websites by using 64-bit processes on 64-bit versions of Windows. For computers running at least Windows 8, Enhanced Protected Mode also limits the locations Internet Explorer can read from in the registry and the file system. |
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Internet Control Panel / Security Page | Intranet Sites: Include all network paths (UNCs) | Disabled | This policy setting controls whether URLs representing UNCs are mapped into the local Intranet security zone. |
+| Windows Components / Microsoft Edge | Configure Password Manager | Disabled | This policy setting lets you decide whether employees can save their passwords locally using Password Manager. By default, Password Manager is turned on. if you enable this setting, employees can use Password Manager to save their passwords locally. If you disable this setting employees can't use Password Manager to save their passwords locally. If you don't configure this setting employees can choose whether to use Password Manager to save their passwords locally. |
+
+### User Policies
+| Feature  | Policy Setting  | Policy Value  | Description  |
+|----------|-----------------|---------------|--------------|
+| Windows Components / Internet Explorer | Turn on the auto-complete feature for user names and passwords on forms | Disabled | This AutoComplete feature can remember and suggest User names and passwords on Forms. If you enable this setting, the user cannot change "User name and passwords on forms" or "prompt me to save passwords". The Auto Complete feature for User names and passwords on Forms will be turned on. You have to decide whether to select "prompt me to save passwords". If you disable this setting the user cannot change "User name and passwords on forms" or "prompt me to save passwords". The Auto Complete feature for User names and passwords on Forms is turned off. The user also cannot opt to be prompted to save passwords. If you do not configure this setting, the user has the freedom of turning on Auto complete for User name and passwords on forms and the option of prompting to save passwords. To display this option, the users open the Internet Options dialog box, click the Contents Tab and click the Settings button. |
+
+## Controls
+
+The controls enforced in level 3 implement complex security configuration and controls. 
+They are likely to have a higher impact to users or to applications,
+enforcing a level of security commensurate with the risks facing the most targeted organizations. 
+Microsoft recommends using the Audit/Enforce methodology for controls with audit mode, and [the rings methodology](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/deployment/update/waas-deployment-rings-windows-10-updates) for those that do
+not.
+
+| Feature Set  | Feature  | Description  |
+|--------------|----------|--------------|
+| Exploit protection  | Enable exploit protection | Exploit protection helps protect devices from malware that use exploits to spread and infect to other devices. It consists of several mitigations that can be applied at the individual app level.  |
+| Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) *or* AppLocker | Configure devices to use application whitelisting using one of the following approaches:<br>[AaronLocker](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/aaron_margosis/2018/10/11/aaronlocker-update-v0-91-and-see-aaronlocker-in-action-on-channel-9/) (admin writeable areas) when software distribution is not always centralized<br>*or*<br>[Managed installer](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-defender-application-control/use-windows-defender-application-control-with-managed-installer) when all software is pushed through software distribution<br>*or*<br>[Explicit control](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-defender-application-control/create-initial-default-policy) when the software on a device is static and tightly controlled  | Application control is a crucial line of defense for protecting enterprises given today’s threat landscape, and it has an inherent advantage over traditional antivirus solutions. Specifically, application control moves away from the traditional application trust model where all applications are assumed trustworthy by default to one where applications must earn trust in order to run. Application Control can help mitigate these types of security threats by restricting the applications that users can run and the code that runs in the System Core (kernel). WDAC policies also block unsigned scripts and MSIs, and Windows PowerShell runs in [Constrained Language Mode](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/powershell-constrained-language-mode/). |
+
+## Behaviors
+
+The behaviors recommended in level 3 represent the most sophisticated security
+configuration. Removing admin rights can be difficult, but it is essential to
+achieve a level of security commensurate with the risks facing the most targeted
+organizations.
+
+| Feature Set  | Feature  | Description  |
+|--------------|----------|--------------|
+| Remove Admin Rights | Remove as many users as possible from the local Administrators group, targeting 0. Microsoft recommends removing admin rights role by role. Some roles are more challenging, including:<br>- Developers, who often install rapidly iterating software which is difficult to package using current software distribution systems<br>- Scientists/ Doctors, who often must install and operate specialized hardware devices<br>- Remote locations with slow web links, where administration is delegated<br>It is typically easier to address these roles later in the process.<br>Microsoft recommends identifying the dependencies on admin rights and systematically addressing them:<br>- Legitimate use of admin rights: crowdsourced admin, where a new process is needed to complete that workflow<br>- Illegitimate use of admin rights: app compat dependency, where app remediation is the best path. The [Desktop App Assure](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-IT-Pro-Blog/What-is-Desktop-App-Assure/ba-p/270232) program can assist with these app issues | Running as non-admin limits your exposure. When you are an admin, every program you run has unlimited access to your computer. If malicious code finds its way to one of those programs, it also gains unlimited access. When an exploit runs with admin privileges, its ability to compromise your system is much greater, its ability to do so without detection is much greater, and its ability to attack others on your network is greater than it would be with only User privileges. If you’re running as admin, an exploit can:<br>- install kernel-mode rootkits and/or keyloggers<br>- install and start services<br>- install ActiveX controls, including IE and shell add-ins<br>- access data belonging to other users<br>- cause code to run whenever anybody else logs on (including capturing passwords entered into the Ctrl-Alt-Del logon dialog)<br>- replace OS and other program files with trojan horses<br>- disable/uninstall anti-virus<br>- cover its tracks in the event log<br>- render your machine unbootable |
+
+
+
+
+

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+# Level 4 enterprise dev/ops workstation security configuration
+ 
+**Applies to**  
+
+-   Windows 10
+
+We recommend this configuration for developers and testers, who are an attractive target both for supply chain attacks and access to servers and systems containing high value data or where critical business functions could be disrupted. A level 4 configuration should include all the configurations from levels 3, 2, and 1 and additional controls. We are planning recommendations for the additional controls now, so check back soon for level 4 enterprise dev/ops security configuration guidance!
+
+
+
+

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+# Level 5 enterprise administrator workstation security configuration
+
+**Applies to**  
+
+-   Windows 10
+
+
+Administrators (particularly of identity or security systems) present the highest risk to the organization−through data theft, data alteration, or service disruption. 
+A level 5 configuration should include all the configurations from levels 4, 3, 2, and 1 and adds additional controls. We are planning recommendations for the additional controls now, so check back soon for level 5 enterprise administrator security configuration guidance!

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+
+# Introducing the security configuration framework
+
+Security configuration is complex. When hardening your deployment of Windows 10, how should you prioritize the hardware you buy, policies you enforce, controls you configure, and behavior your staff exhibit?
+
+Even when configuring policies, with thousands of policies available in Windows, choosing the “best” setting is difficult. It’s not always obvious which permutations of policies are required to implement a complete scenario, and there are often unintended consequences of security lockdowns. Because of this, with each release of Windows, Microsoft publishes [Windows security baselines](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-security-baselines), an industry-standard configuration that is broadly known and well-tested. However, many organizations have discovered that this baseline sets a very high bar for some scenarios.
+
+To help you prioritize your endpoint hardening work, Microsoft is introducing a new taxonomy for security configurations for Windows 10. In this initial preview, we are simply listing recommended hardware, policies, controls, and behaviors in order to gather feedback from more customers and security experts in order to refine the framework and prioritize opportunities to automate.
+
+This new security configuration framework, which we affectionately nickname the SecCon framework (remember "WarGames"?), organizes devices into one of 5 distinct security configurations.
+
+![SECCON Framework](images/seccon-framework.png)
+
+- [Level 1 enterprise basic security](level-1-enterprise-basic-security.md) – We recommend this configuration as the minimum security configuration for an enterprise device. Recommendations for this level are generally straightforward and are designed to be deployable within 30 days.
+- [Level 2 enterprise enhanced security](level-2-enterprise-enhanced-security.md) – We recommend this configuration for devices where users access sensitive or confidential information. Some of the controls may have an impact to app compat, and therefore will often go through an audit-configure-enforce workflow. Recommendations for this level are generally accessible to most organizations and are designed to be deployable within 90 days.
+- [Level 3 enterprise high security](level-3-enterprise-high-security.md) – We recommend this configuration for devices run by an organization with a larger or more sophisticated security team, or for specific users or groups who are at uniquely high risk (as one example, one organization identified users who handle data whose theft would directly and seriously impact their stock price). An organization likely to be targeted by well-funded and sophisticated adversaries should aspire to this configuration. Recommendations for this level can be complex (for example, removing local admin rights for some organizations can be a long project in and of itself) and can often go beyond 90 days.
+- [Level 4 DevOps workstation](level-4-enterprise-devops-security.md) – We recommend this configuration for developers and testers, who are an attractive target both for supply chain attacks and access to servers and systems containing high value data or where critical business functions could be disrupted. Level 4 guidance is coming soon!
+- [Level 5 administrator workstation](level-5-enterprise-administrator-security.md) – Administrators (particularly of identity or security systems) present the highest risk to the organization, through data theft, data alteration, or service disruption. Level 5 guidance is coming soon!
+
+
+The security configuration framework divides configuration into Productivity Devices and Privileged Access Workstations. This document will focus on Productivity Devices
+(Levels 1, 2, and 3). 
+Microsoft’s current guidance on [Privileged Access Workstations](https://aka.ms/privsec) are part of the [Securing Privileged Access roadmap](https://aka.ms/privsec).
+
+Microsoft recommends reviewing and categorizing your devices, and then configuring them using the prescriptive guidance for that level. 
+Level 1 should be considered the minimum baseline for an enterprise device, and Microsoft recommends increasing the protection based on both threat environment and risk appetite.
+
+## Security control classification
+
+The recommendations are grouped into four categories.
+
+| Hardware | Policies | Controls | Behaviors |
+|----------|----------|----------|-----------|
+| Microsoft recommends acquiring hardware that supports the specified hardware features, in order to support Windows security features | Microsoft recommends enforcing the configuration of the specified policies in the manner described, to harden Windows to the designated level of security | Microsoft recommends enabling the security controls specified in the manner described, to provide protections appropriate to the designated level of security. | Microsoft recommends changing organizational behavior towards the endpoints in the manner described. |
+
+## Security control deployment methodologies
+
+The way Microsoft recommends implementing these controls depends on the
+auditability of the control–there are two primary methodologies.
+
+### Rings
+
+Security controls which don't support an audit mode should be deployed gradually. A typical deployment methodology:
+
+1. Test ring - deploy to a lab to validate "must test" apps prior to enforcement of any configuration
+2. Pilot ring - deploy to a representative sample of 2-5% of the environment
+3. Fast ring - deploy to the next 25% of the environment
+4. Slow ring - deploy to the remainder of the organization
+
+### Audit / Enforce
+
+Security controls which support an audit mode can be deployed using the following methodology:
+
+1. Audit - enable the control in audit mode, and gather audit data in a centralized location
+2. Review - review the audit data to assess potential impact (both positive and negative) and configure any exemptions from the security control you need to configure
+3. Enforce - deploy the configuration of any exemptions and convert the control to enforce mode