Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (Microsoft EMET) 5.5 Final

[Petrovic]

Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (Microsoft EMET) 5.5 Final (5.5.5871.31892)

The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) helps raise the bar against attackers gaining access to computer systems. EMET anticipates the most common actions and techniques adversaries might use in compromising a computer, and helps protect by diverting, terminating, blocking, and invalidating those actions and techniques. EMET helps protect your computer systems even before new and undiscovered threats are formally addressed by security updates and antimalware software. EMET benefits enterprises and all computer users by helping to protect against security threats and breaches that can disrupt businesses and daily lives.

EMET 5.5 release includes new functionality and updates, including:
• Windows 10 compatibility
• Improved configuration of various mitigations via GPO
• Improved writing of the mitigations to the registry, making it easier to leverage existing tools to manage EMET mitigations via GPO
• EAF/EAF+ perf improvements
• Untrusted font mitigation for Windows 10

Download Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 5.5 from Official Microsoft Download Center

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https://download.microsoft.com/download/8/E/E/8EEFD9FC-46B1-4A8B-9B5D-13B4365F8CA0/EMET Setup.msi

 

[Av Gurus]

Does this version support Edge browser?

 

[Ink]

Does this version support Edge browser?

The 5.5 Beta didn't.

EMET 5.5 Beta and Edge
Given the advanced technologies used to protect Microsoft Edge, including industry leading sandboxing, compiler, and memory management techniques, EMET 5.5 mitigations do not apply to Edge.

Source: Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) version 5.5 Beta is now available - Security Research & Defense - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

 

[JM Safe]

Microsoft on Tuesday announced that the latest version of its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) includes Windows 10 compatibility, and brings several other enhancements.

The new EMET 5.5 was released with improved configuration of various mitigations via Group Policy Object (GPO) and various EAF/EAF+ pseudo-mitigation performance improvements. Additionally, it packs improved writing of the mitigations to the registry, making it easier to leverage existing tools to manage EMET mitigations via GPO, as well as support for untrusted fonts mitigation in Windows 10.

Initially released in 2009 as a standalone tool for enterprises to better protect their Windows clients, EMET has seen various enhancements over time, aimed at helping all users stay protected against security threats and breaches. As Microsoft puts it, the tool was designed to anticipate, divert, terminate, and block most common actions and techniques that cybercriminals might use to compromise a computer.

In a recent blog post, Microsoft explains that Windows 10 already includes various features and mitigations that essentially make EMET unnecessary. The tool, however, is useful when it comes to protecting down-level systems and legacy applications, as well as for providing Control Flow Guard (CFG) protection for 3rd party software.

The software giant also explains that Device Guard, CFG, and AppLocker are some of the Windows 10 features that provide equivalent (or better) mitigations than EMET. Furthermore, the company notes that, because of technologies such as sandboxing, compiler, and memory management techniques, EMET 5.5 mitigations do not apply to Microsoft Edge.

Windows 10’s Device Guard includes a series of enterprise-related hardware and software security features designed to lock a device down, allowing only trusted applications to run. Microsoft claims that Device Guard offers hardware-based zero-day protection for software running in kernel mode, thus being able to protect the device and Device Guard itself from tampering.

CFG, on the other hand, was meant to analyze and discover locations that indirect-call instructions can reach and to build that knowledge into the binaries. Additionally, it injects a check before every indirect-call in the code, to ensure the target is an expected, safe location, otherwise it the operating system closes the program.

The AppLocker, an app control feature introduced in Windows 7, was meant to help with preventing the execution of unwanted and unknown applications within an organization's network. It can be used in combination with Device Guard to control which apps from trusted publishers are allowed to run.

Microsoft has designed EMET to offer compatibility with most commonly used third-party applications at both at home and in the enterprise ecosystem, ranging from productivity software to music players. It works on a variety of client and server operating systems and can validate Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates against a set of user-defined rules.

The new EMET 5.5 is now available for download with support for Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows Vista machines. It also requires .NET Framework 4.5 to be installed.

Thanks for reading

Source: Microsoft EMET Adds Windows 10 Compatibility | SecurityWeek.Com

 

[Deleted Member 333v73x]

@Jo Man Switched from MBAE premium to EMET and really linking it

 

[Soulbound]

and now its when @illumination will re-add EMET

 

[illumination]

and now its when @illumination will re-add EMET

In a recent blog post, Microsoft explains that Windows 10 already includes various features and mitigations that essentially make EMET unnecessary.

Really it is not necessary in Windows 10, as i found when testing the Beta.

 

[Ink]

Thread merged with existing topic.