Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Hayk Hovsepyan

Adrian Mihail Marinescu

Michael Joseph Healy

Karthik Selvaraj

Patanjal Digant Vyas

Chaohong Ou

Alemeshet Yismaw Alemu

David Torosyan

Shweta Jha

Milind Amrutrao Pawar

Matthew Ronald Shadbolt

Gokhan Ozhan

Vladimir Soroka

A system and method for providing stringent tamper resistant protection against changes to key system security features. The tamper protection is configured such that any changes to the policy can only occur from a configuration manager console, thereby preventing local device admin users or other malicious actors from altering the setting. Thus, tamper protection locks the selected service and prevents security settings from being changed through third-party apps and methods. When a system administrator enables the feature for an enterprise's workstations, only administrators will be able to change the service settings across a company's computers. The tamper protection policy is digitally signed in the backend before being deployed to endpoints, and the endpoint verifies the validity and intent of the policy, establishing that it is a signed package that only security operations personnel with the necessary administrator rights can control.

Tamper-resistant service management for enterprise systems

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Hayk Hovsepyan