![]() For example, users with administrative privileges can disable AppLocker. Not least of which is that its implementation isn’t very robust. But AppLocker isn’t without its shortcomings. AppLocker in Windows 7 was designed to solve that problem. Windows Defender Application ControlĪpplication control first appeared in Windows XP as Software Restriction Policies (SRP), but it was not widely adopted because it was difficult to implement. ![]() By separating Device Guard into two distinct technologies, Microsoft hopes that IT administrators will understand that HVCI isn’t required to use WDAC. Last year, Microsoft announced that the two technologies that makeup Device Guard had been separated into Windows Defender Application Control, which deals with application whitelisting, and Windows Defender Exploit Guard would handle protecting WDAC using HVCI if required. But Microsoft promoted Device Guard along with HVCI and many IT administrators wrongly assumed that the application control part of Device Guard couldn’t be used without HVCI, which has some hardware requirements that many older devices don’t meet. Windows Device Guard was introduced in Windows 10 as a new, robust application control solution designed to be more flexible than AppLocker. Just to add to the confusion, Microsoft uses Windows Device Guard to refer to the use of WDAC and hypervisor-protected code integrity (HVCI) together.įor more information on Windows Defender Application Guard, see Revisiting Application Guard in the Windows 10 April 2018 Update on Petri. ![]() ![]() Not to be confused with Windows Defender Application Guard, a containerization solution for Microsoft Edge that uses Hyper-V to isolate browser sessions, WDAC is one part of Windows Device Guard. If you are not familiar with Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC), let me fill you in.
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