How I manage my device from Endpoint Manager – taste your own medicine – Part 3 of 4

How I manage my device from Endpoint Manager – taste your own medicine – Part 3 of 4

Introduction

Glück & Kanja Consulting AG | Cloud Security Operations Center

This blog post is part of a series. If you did not see the first blogpost of the series, you should go through that first.

How I manage my device from Endpoint Manager – taste your own medicine – Part 1 of 4

How I manage my device from Endpoint Manager – taste your own medicine – Part 2 of 4

In this blog post I will go through the security recommendations that MDATP suggested on my own device and will show you how this is implemented in Endpoint manager one by one, as we should know what the recommendations are and how to set them.

I started off with 57 security recommendations and this is my way towards 0 (or close to 0 )

 

Prerequisites

– Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection license – for more information read here

– Microsoft Endpoint Manager

 

Table of content

Security Recommendation 21 Disable Microsoft Defender Firewall notifications when programs are blocked for Private profile

Security Recommendation 22 Disable Microsoft Defender Firewall notifications when programs are blocked for Public profile

Security Recommendation 23 Disable merging of local Microsoft Defender Firewall rules with group policy firewall rules for the Public profile

Security Recommendation 24 Disable merging of local Microsoft Defender Firewall connection rules with group policy firewall rules for the Public profile

Security Recommendation 25 Enable Apply UAC restrictions to local accounts on network logons

Security Recommendation 26 Disable SMBv1 client driver

Security Recommendation 27 Disable Allow Basic authentication for WinRM Client

Security Recommendation 28 Disable Allow Basic authentication for WinRM Service

Security Recommendation 29 Disable Autoplay for non-volume devices

Security Recommendation 30 Disable Autoplay for all drives

 

Let’s make my device more secure

Fire up your Microsoft edge browser (if you do not have that installed, now is the time)

Go to https://securitycenter.microsoft.com/

Choose Device inventory, select your device and see Security Recommendations for your device.

 

Security Recommendation 21 Disable Microsoft Defender Firewall notifications when programs are blocked for Private profile

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This is more like and end-user experience rather than a security concern. But nice to have.

Go to https://endpoint.microsoft.com/ -> Endpoint security -> Firewall

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Give it a friendly name

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Turn on firewall for private networks and disable inbound notifications

Assign to your device and create the policy.

 

Security Recommendation 22 Disable Microsoft Defender Firewall notifications when programs are blocked for Public profile

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This is more like and end-user experience rather than a security concern. But nice to have.

Go to https://endpoint.microsoft.com/ -> Endpoint security -> Firewall

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Give it a friendly name

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Turn on firewall for public networks and disable inbound notifications

Assign to your device and create the policy.

 

Security Recommendation 23 Disable merging of local Microsoft Defender Firewall rules with group policy firewall rules for the Public profile

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Go to https://endpoint.microsoft.com/ -> Endpoint security -> Firewall

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Give it a friendly name

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Ignore all local firewall rules

Assign to your device and create the policy.

 

Security Recommendation 24 Disable merging of local Microsoft Defender Firewall connection rules with group policy firewall rules for the Public profile

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Go to https://endpoint.microsoft.com/ -> Endpoint security -> Firewall

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Give it a friendly name

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Ignore all local firewall rules

Assign to your device and create the policy.

 

Security Recommendation 25 Enable Apply UAC restrictions to local accounts on network logons

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Go to https://endpoint.microsoft.com/ -> Devices -> Windows -> Configuration Profiles

Create Profile

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Apply UAC restrictions to local accounts on network logons

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Enabled

Assign it to your device and save it.

 

Security Recommendation 26 Disable SMBv1 client driver

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Go to https://endpoint.microsoft.com/ -> Devices -> Windows -> Configuration Profiles

Create Profile

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Configure SMB v1 client driver

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Enabled

Assign it to your device and save it.

 

Security Recommendation 27 Disable Allow Basic authentication for WinRM Client

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Go to https://endpoint.microsoft.com/ -> Devices -> Windows -> Configuration Profiles

Create Profile

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Allow basic authentication

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Disabled

Assign it to your device and save it.

 

Security Recommendation 28 Disable Allow Basic authentication for WinRM Service

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Go to https://endpoint.microsoft.com/ -> Devices -> Windows -> Configuration Profiles

Create Profile

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Allow basic authentication

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Disabled

Assign it to your device and save it.

 

Security Recommendation 29 Disable Autoplay for non-volume devices

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Go to https://endpoint.microsoft.com/ -> Devices -> Windows -> Configuration Profiles

Create Profile

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Disabled

Assign it to your device and save it.

 

Security Recommendation 30 Disable Autoplay for all drives

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Go to https://endpoint.microsoft.com/ -> Devices -> Windows -> Configuration Profiles

Create Profile

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Enabled – All drives

Assign it to your device and save it.

 

To see the last 16 security recommendations go to part 4:

How I manage my device from Endpoint Manager – taste your own medicine – Part 4 of 4

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