defensive-mitigations

Audit Windows endpoints for security mitigation tampering by tracking registry and policy changes that disable protections like ASLR, DEP, and CFG. This validates Defender configurations and detects defense evasion attempts across devices.

Detecting Defender RTP and LSA registry tampering requires access to Windows security telemetry, registry monitoring data, and SIEM KQL capabilities. These inputs identify non-compliant configurations and credential dumping indicators.

Use KQL in your SIEM to hunt for Defender EventID 5001 tamper events by querying Windows security telemetry. This identifies instances where real-time protection is disabled for threat triage.

You can validate secure configuration compliance across enterprise devices using TVM checks. This assesses whether security mitigations and Defender protections remain enabled and compliant across the environment.

The best way to monitor ASLR and DEP mitigations for defense evasion is continuous registry monitoring. This tracks policy changes that disable critical security protections and flags non-compliant endpoints for SOC triage.