Windows 365 security baselines

Windows 365 delivers its own branded set of security baselines that include different best practices that are optimized for cloud PC virtualized scenarios.

We highly recommend customers use these as they come from experience from real-world implementations. You can use these policies to lower the risk while increasing the security boundaries of your cloud PCs.

You can use security baselines to get security recommendations that can help lower risk. The Windows 365 baselines enable security configurations for Windows 10, Edge, and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. They include versioning features and help customers choose when to update user policies to the latest release.

Figure 13.48 – Security baselines

Requirements for Defender for Endpoint

In the next part of this section, I'm going to explain how you configure Microsoft Defender for Endpoint via MEM to secure your virtual or physical Windows endpoints...