Today it’s time to show the installation of EMET (Enchanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit) on a standalone computer. Helps raise the bar against attackers EMET helps protect against new and undiscovered threats even before they are formally addressed through security updates or antimalware software. EMET includes 12 security mitigations that complement other defense in-depth security measures, such as Windows Defender and antivirus software. EMET installs with default protection profiles, which are XML files that contain preconfigured settings for common Microsoft and third-party applications. We’re using EMET 4.1 update 1 for this installation. The homepage for EMET…
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At the end of April, Microsoft updated the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit to version 4.1 update 1 (download) and after testing this for a couple of weeks on several systems, and this, in my honest opinion, should become the standard installation on all your networks as Systems Administrator. No matter where you are today, software is there. Whether it’s your phone, your car, your work or even in the grocery store. One thing that is common to all these software’s is vulnerabilities. Vendor market share, the motivation of the attackers and the profile of a…