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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 policyDebug privileges are generally only made available to Developers. Debug privilege disables checks on the process security descriptor. TheACS policy.
policy would generally be cloned to actually exclude those programs (developer tools ) that actually require debug rights such as Visual Studio.The last step to protect the Arellia Agent Service is to remove the terminate privilege from Administrators. This can be done by creating a new Adjust Process Security actionNote title Warning Debug rights trump Remove Advanced Privileges for Interactive Users
policy, so be aware anyone with debug rights will still be able to kill protected processes.
- Remove the terminate privilege from Administrators by creating a new process security action and then applying it via an Application Control Policy targeting the "Arellia.Agent.Service.exe" executable.
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- (For details about adjusting process security, go to Adjust Process Security.)
Related links
How to enable process and service hardening using ACS and LSS