The device-risk article took a position: the machine risk score belongs in the access decision only for a small, high-assurance, always-reporting population, carved into its own compliance policy, while the rest of the fleet is gated on the health signals…
The attack-surface article argued the family and sent you to the Intune guide for the audit-to-block ladder itself. This build pins the rules to values, resolves the merge conflict from the attack-surface side, and wires the web-protection substrate that most…
The protection-engine article argued which of these settings are dials rather than switches and where each should land. This pins them. Most are a single deliberate choice made once, and they are gathered here as values with the reason attached.…
The security settings management article argued what this channel is and the one rule that governs it: an Intune-enrolled device ignores it, so it exists to configure the machines Intune deliberately does not manage. This is the build. It is…
The onboarding article mapped the doors a device can take into Defender and argued which one to use for which population. This is the build for the door most estates start with, the Intune channel, taken from an empty connection…
Everything so far has been about making the endpoint strong. This last piece is about what the endpoint then says about itself, because a managed device produces a risk verdict, and that verdict can flow into compliance and from there…
Attack surface reduction is a family, not a feature, and it is the part of the protection stack that shrinks the ground an attacker gets to stand on. The Intune guide already taught the discipline of rolling these rules out,…
A channel now points at the device, and the question becomes what it should carry. The protection engine is where most of the real posture lives, and it is also where the defaults deserve the most scrutiny, because a few…
