Defender on Anything About IT

Windows Defender, More than just Antivirus – Part 1

Sat, 19 Oct 2019 15:35:26 +0000

Due to my professional activity as a Cyber Security Consultant, I regularly speak with customers about Windows Defender and find that many are not fully aware of all the features and capabilities that Windows Defender offers. Also, when reviewing existing implementations, I’ve noticed a pattern of some common issues.

I guess the blog post title ‘Windows Defender, more than just Antivirus’ says it all. The objective of today’s blog post is to provide you with a brief overview of Windows Defender and provide some advice on how to get the most out of it.

Managing Windows Defender / System Center Endpoint Security with PowerShell

Tue, 08 Apr 2014 13:17:21 +0000

I just read a blog post from Ed Wilson (Scripting Guy) about Use PowerShell to Configure Windows Defender Preferences and wondered if there’s more here. And yes there is. If you have a default insallation of Windows 8 and have defender enabled or work in an enterprise environment and use Configuration Manager with the System Center Endpoint Security agent deployed on your clients then you the below listed cmdlets available.

Windows Defender

To get a list of all available Defender cmdlets just run the following command within a powershell console