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Conditional Access session controls influence reauthentication, browser persistence, app restrictions, resilience, and token protection; shorter sign-in frequency is not a universal session-revocation control.
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Added LSA protection blocks plug-ins and drivers that do not meet protected-process requirements; Microsoft provides audit events that should be reviewed before broad enforcement.
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SMB signing helps detect message tampering and resist relay, but requiring it changes connection acceptance and can expose legacy client, server, alias, and performance dependencies.
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SMB encryption protects supported SMB data in transit and can be required at several scopes, but unsupported clients are rejected and encryption does not cover storage at rest.
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Protected Users applies nonconfigurable credential protections that can also break NTLM, delegation, offline sign-in, and other dependencies. Prove each account's authentication paths before membership expands.
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Windows Event Forwarding can collect selected operational and administrative events through subscriptions, but a running collector does not prove every source enrolled or delivered the required events.
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Requiring LDAP signing rejects unsigned SASL binds and cleartext simple binds; Microsoft provides summary and detailed directory events to find dependent clients before enforcement.
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Just Enough Administration can expose a constrained PowerShell endpoint backed by a privileged virtual account or gMSA, but endpoint commands, parameters, run-as identity, and transcripts define the real boundary.
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Sysmon records detailed system activity according to its configuration, but it neither analyzes events nor supplies a universally correct configuration; rule changes directly alter evidence and volume.
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Delivery Optimization can obtain Windows content from peers, Connected Cache, or the HTTP source; download mode, network identity, proxy behavior, and reporting determine where content actually moves.
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