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- Harden the Arellia Agent and ACS services against administrators (for details about service hardening, go to Service Hardening).
Remove the debug privilege from Administrators
. The quick way to do it is enableby enabling the Remove Advanced Privileges for Interactive Users
application control policyACS policy.
are generally only made available to Developers. Debug privilege disablesTip title Note Debug privileges
. Thedisable checks on the process security descriptor
policy would generally be cloned to actually excludeand are generally granted to only developers. When you clone the Remove Advanced Privileges for Interactive Users
policy, the policy excludes those programs (such as developer tools) that actually require debug rights such as Visual Studio.
- The last step to protect the Arellia Agent Service is to remove Remove the terminate privilege from Administrators . This can be done by creating a new Adjust Process Security action new process security action and then applying it via an Application Control Policy targeting the "Arellia.Agent.Service.exe" executable. (For details about adjusting process security, go to Adjust Process Security.)