10.5: Enable Anti-Exploitation Features

Enable anti-exploitation features on enterprise assets and software, where possible, such as Microsoft® Data Execution Prevention (DEP), Windows® Defender Exploit Guard (WDEG), or Apple® System Integrity Protection (SIP) and Gatekeeper™.

Asset Type

Security Function

Implementation Groups

Devices

Protect

2, 3

Dependencies

  • Safeguard 1.1: Establish and Maintain Detailed Enterprise Asset Inventory

  • Safeguard 4.1: Establish and Maintain a Secure Configuration Process

Inputs

  1. GV1: Enterprise asset inventory

  2. GV3: Configuration standards

Operations

  1. For each asset in GV1, use configuration standards GV3 to determine if it is propely configured to enable anti-exploitation features

    1. Identify and enumerate assets properly configured to enable anti-exploitation features (M2)

    2. Identify and enumerate assets not properly configured to enable anti-exploitation features (M3)

Measures

  • M1 = Count of GV1

  • M2 = Count of assets properly configured to enable anti-exploitation feautures

  • M3 = Count of assets not properly configured to enable anti-exploitation features

Metrics

Coverage