Month: March 2019

First published on TECHNET on Jan 30, 2017

Windows Server 2016 includes new audit events to help with early detection of malicious activity in your datacenter. You can find the complete list of the events from this

reference pape… Continue reading Windows Server 2016 security auditing for enhanced threat detection→

First published on TECHNET on Sep 22, 2016

If you’re going to Ignite next week, you don’t want to miss the Windows Server 2016 security sessions we prepared for you! Check out this blog post on the Hybrid Cloud blog that also feature s… Continue reading Windows Server 2016 security sessions at Microsoft Ignite 2016→

First published on TECHNET on Sep 20, 2016

With

thousands of new malware released

every day, it may not be sufficient to only use signature-based detection to fight against malware. Device Guard on Windows Server 2016 change… Continue reading Overview of Device Guard in Windows Server 2016→

First published on TECHNET on Sep 01, 2016

Continuing on the topic of Shielded VMs from my last

blog

on creating shielded VMs, this blogpost will share my learnings from validating the scenario. This blogpost doesn’t di… Continue reading Step by Step: Shielding existing VMs without VMM→

First published on TECHNET on Aug 29, 2016

Least Privilege

As part of your information security strategy, you are probably familiar with the principle of

least privilege

. The concept itself is simple&n… Continue reading Reduce the number of admins on your servers with Just Enough Administration→

First published on TECHNET on Aug 16, 2016

[This post is authored by Dean Wells, Principal Program Manager for the Windows Server Security Product Team]

Overview

The Host Guardian Service (HGS) is a new role in Windows… Continue reading Host Guardian Service – AD-based vs. TPM-based attestation→

First published on TECHNET on Jun 08, 2016

My original blog post on the topic of deploying Shielded VMs without VMM included the instructions to deploy guarded hosts.  Based on feedback around keeping the blog posts short and scen… Continue reading Step-by-step: Quick reference guide to deploying guarded hosts→

First published on TECHNET on Jun 07, 2016

Shielded VMs protect the data and state of a Virtual Machine against inspection, theft and tampering from malware and datacenter administrators and they do so both at rest and in-flight. One o… Continue reading Step by Step – Shielded VM Recovery→