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Windows Credential Guard isolates selected secrets with virtualization-based security, but legacy protocols, delegation, security packages, remote access, firmware, virtualization, and applications can change behavior. Discover and pilot before enforcement.
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Browser extensions can read pages, alter traffic, and retain access long after their original purpose ends. Govern them as software: approve by need and permission, assign an owner, inventory deployment, review change, and remove them predictably.
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A misplaced switch or unexpected bridge can change Layer 2 topology and disrupt a site. Define the intended spanning-tree root, classify ports, apply platform-appropriate protections, monitor topology changes, and test recovery.
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Modern devices can present private MAC addresses per Wi-Fi network and may rotate them. Inventory and network access designs that treat a hardware address as durable identity need stronger signals, documented exceptions, and tested support workflows.
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SNMPv3 can add authentication, integrity, privacy, and scoped access, but a rushed cutover can silently drop polling or notifications. Migrate by device class, verify manager support, test both directions, and retain rollback.
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A 6 GHz design is more than a faster radio. Client support, security mode, device class, indoor or outdoor location, power limits, channel availability, and automated frequency coordination can change what may be deployed.
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An endpoint-protection exclusion changes what a control can inspect or block. Require a narrow technical case, accountable owner, compensating measures, test evidence, expiry, monitoring, and verified removal for every exception.
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Unauthenticated scans show an outside view; authenticated checks can inspect local configuration, software, and patch evidence. Use both deliberately, protect scanner credentials, prove successful authentication, and handle fragile systems separately.
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Removable media can carry essential recovery data, sensitive records, and malicious content across trust boundaries. Define approved uses, managed media, encryption, scanning, transfer stations, custody, retention, and sanitization by risk.
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An exception without an owner, evidence, compensating control, expiry, and removal plan becomes an undocumented standard. Use a common register, risk-based approval, automatic reminders, verification, and escalation for renewal.
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