Early Launch Antimalware, Boot-Start Driver Initialization Policy must prevent boot drivers.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
The default behavior is for Early Launch Antimalware - Boot-Start Driver Initialization policy is to enforce "Good, unknown and bad but critical" (preventing "bad"). By being launched first by the kernel, ELAM ( Early Launch Antimalware) is ensured to be launched before any third-party software, and is therefore able to detect malware in the boot process and prevent it from initializing.
- ID
- SV-253372r991589_rule
- Version
- WN11-CC-000085
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Ensure that Early Launch Antimalware - Boot-Start Driver Initialization policy is set to enforce "Good, unknown and bad but critical" (preventing "bad").
To correct this, configure the policy value for Computer Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> System >> Early Launch Antimalware >> "Boot-Start Driver Initialization Policy" to "Enabled with "Good, unknown and bad but critical" selected.