
Once again shortly after publishing this post, I came across this blog post from the CERT/CC team of Carnegie-Mellon University. Though we’re aware that this GPO presents some UX challenges, we’re actively working to improve our mitigation management experience for future releases. These mitigations include DEP, SEHOP, Mandatory/Force ASLR, and Bottom-up ASLR. Today, the Process Mitigation Options GPO documented below can be used to configure certain in-box Windows 10 mitigations for particular processes. Thank you for your support and for providing this helpful feedback! We will consider these suggestions as we develop our documentation and continue to evolve our security and mitigation features in future releases of Windows 10. I have provided the text of their message below. From their message there appears to be a possibility that further mitigations will be available in later updates to Windows 10. While the above mitigations don’t provide the same level of protection that EMET offered, they offer an improvement over not using them. They also mentioned this GPO should be receiving further usability improvements in the future. This can be used to apply mitigations such as DEP, SEHOP, Mandatory/Force ASLR, and Bottom-up ASLR to a process without using EMET. They suggested using the Process Mitigation Options GPO which is described in the link provided by them below.

These can be used with any applications, not just legacy applications. Shortly after publishing this blog post, I received a response (apologies for not posting this update sooner) from the Microsoft EMET team to some questions that I had asked with regard to how to harden applications that do not incorporate security mitigations be default on Windows 10 once EMET has reached it’s end of support. Further details are available in the above mentioned blog post. This makes sense for version 1709 since it includes a replacement for EMET while 1703 (to the best of my knowledge does not).Īs noted in a new blog post, an upcoming update to Windows 10 will contain some features of EMET.


Versions 17 of Windows 10 will block the installation of EMET.
