diff --git a/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-defender-application-control/create-wdac-deny-policy.md b/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-defender-application-control/create-wdac-deny-policy.md index a9eea631a0..bc8dc984f9 100644 --- a/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-defender-application-control/create-wdac-deny-policy.md +++ b/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-defender-application-control/create-wdac-deny-policy.md @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ The second option involves merging the blocklist with your existing WDAC policy, ## Best Practices -1. **Starting with Audit Mode Policies** - as with all new policies, we recommend rolling out your new deny policy in Audit Mode and monitoring the [3077 block events](event-id-explanations.md#microsoft-windows-codeintegrity-operational-log-event-ids.md) to ensure only the applications you intended to block are being blocked. More information on monitoring block events via the Event Viewer logs and Advanced Hunting: [Managing and troubleshooting Windows Defender Application Control policies](windows-defender-application-control-operational-guide.md) +1. **Starting with Audit Mode Policies** - as with all new policies, we recommend rolling out your new deny policy in Audit Mode and monitoring the [3077 block events](event-id-explanations.md#optional-intelligent-security-graph-isg-or-managed-installer-mi-diagnostic-events) to ensure only the applications you intended to block are being blocked. More information on monitoring block events via the Event Viewer logs and Advanced Hunting: [Managing and troubleshooting Windows Defender Application Control policies](windows-defender-application-control-operational-guide.md) 2. **Recommended Deny Rules Types** - signer and file attribute rules are recommended from a security, manageability, and performance perspective. Hash rules should only be utilized where otherwise impossible. The hash of an application is updated for every new version released by the publisher, which quickly becomes impractical to manage and protect against new threats where the attacker is quickly iterating on the payload. Additionally, WDAC has optimized parsing of hash rules, but devices may see performance impacts at runtime evaluation when policies have tens of thousands or more hash rules.