Microsoft is deprecating Defender Utility Guard (together with the Home windows Remoted App Launcher APIs) for Edge for Enterprise customers.
Microsoft Defender Utility Guard (MDAG) blocks potential threats by opening them in a safe sandbox utilizing hardware-based virtualization.
“Utilizing our distinctive {hardware} isolation method, our aim is to destroy the playbook that attackers use by making present assault strategies out of date,” Microsoft explains.
Utility Guard for Edge protects enterprise clients by routinely opening all untrusted websites in remoted Hyper-V-enabled containers.
Enterprise admins outline trusted web sites and cloud sources to guard the corporate towards potential malware infections when customers go to malicious websites.
“Microsoft Defender Utility Guard, together with the Home windows Remoted App Launcher APIs, is being deprecated for Microsoft Edge for Enterprise and will now not be up to date,” Microsoft introduced.
Redmond advises clients to take a look at the Microsoft Edge For Enterprise safety whitepaper for extra particulars on the safety capabilities that also ship with its Edge for Enterprise net browser.
The corporate launched MDAG assist to the Edge net browser in April 2019 on Home windows 10 techniques.
​Final month, Redmond introduced that it is deprecating Defender Utility Guard for Workplace, together with the Home windows Safety Isolation APIs.
​The announcement got here two years after Redmond rolled out Utility Guard for Workplace to all Microsoft 365 clients with eligible licenses and 4 years after its introduction as a part of a restricted preview in November 2019.
It additionally suggested customers to change to Defender for Endpoint assault floor discount guidelines, Protected View, and Home windows Defender Utility Management in its place.
The corporate can be dropping VBScript in future Home windows releases (30 years after its introduction), making it out there as an on-demand characteristic earlier than its full removing.
Earlier this 12 months, Microsoft additionally reminded customers that it might quickly disable insecure Transport Layer Safety (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 protocols in Home windows.
Nonetheless, it delayed Alternate On-line Consumer Entry Guidelines (CARs) deprecation by one 12 months till September 2024.
