{"id":142875,"date":"2022-07-26T04:03:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T09:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/microsoft-adds-default-protection-against-rdp-brute-force-attacks-in-windows-11"},"modified":"2022-07-26T04:03:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T09:03:14","slug":"microsoft-adds-default-protection-against-rdp-brute-force-attacks-in-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/microsoft-adds-default-protection-against-rdp-brute-force-attacks-in-windows-11","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Adds Default Protection Against RDP Brute-Force Attacks in Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-adds-default-protection-against-rdp-brute-force-attacks-in-windows-112.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is now taking steps to prevent Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) brute-force attacks as part of the latest builds for the Windows 11 operating system in an attempt to raise the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/security\/threat-protection\/windows-security-configuration-framework\/windows-security-baselines\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">security baseline<\/a> to meet the evolving threat landscape.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, the default policy for Windows 11 builds \u2013 particularly, Insider Preview builds 22528.1000 and newer \u2013 will automatically lock accounts for 10 minutes after 10 invalid sign-in attempts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWin11 builds now have a DEFAULT account lockout policy to mitigate RDP and other brute-force password vectors,\u201d David Weston, Microsoft\u2019s vice president for OS security and enterprise, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwizzzleMSFT\/status\/1549870156771340288\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a series of tweets last week. \u201cThis technique is very commonly used in Human Operated Ransomware and other attacks \u2014 this control will make brute forcing much harder which is awesome!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is now taking steps to prevent Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) brute-force attacks as part of the latest builds for the Windows 11 operating system in an attempt to raise the security baseline to meet the evolving threat landscape. To that end, the default policy for Windows 11 builds \u2013 particularly, Insider Preview builds 22528.1000 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}