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# Evaluate exploit protection

**Applies to:**

- [Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (Microsoft Defender ATP)](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=2069559)

[Exploit protection](exploit-protection-exploit-guard.md) helps protect devices from malware that uses exploits to spread and infect other devices. 
It consists of a number of mitigations that can be applied to either the operating system or an individual app.
Many of the features that were part of the [Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET)](https://technet.microsoft.com/security/jj653751) are included in exploit protection. 

This topic helps you enable exploit protection in audit mode and review related events in Event Viewer. 
You can enable audit mode for certain app-level mitigations to see how they will work in a test environment.
This lets you see a record of what *would* have happened if you had enabled the mitigation in production.
You can make sure it doesn't affect your line-of-business apps, and see which suspicious or malicious events occur.

>[!TIP]
>You can also visit the Windows Defender Testground website at [demo.wd.microsoft.com](https://demo.wd.microsoft.com?ocid=cx-wddocs-testground) to see how exploit protection works.

## Enable exploit protection in audit mode

You can set mitigations in audit mode for specific programs either by using the Windows Security app or PowerShell. 

### Windows Security app

1. Open the Windows Security app by clicking the shield icon in the task bar or searching the start menu for **Defender**.

2. Click the **App & browser control** tile (or the app icon on the left menu bar) and then click **Exploit protection**.
      
3.	Go to **Program settings** and choose the app you want to apply mitigations to:

    1. If the app you want to configure is already listed, click it and then click **Edit**
    2. If the app is not listed, at the top of the list click **Add program to customize** and then choose how you want to add the app:
        - Use **Add by program name** to have the mitigation applied to any running process with that name. You must specify a file with an extension. You can enter a full path to limit the mitigation to only the app with that name in that location.
        - Use **Choose exact file path** to use a standard Windows Explorer file picker window to find and select the file you want.
		        
4. After selecting the app, you'll see a list of all the mitigations that can be applied. Choosing **Audit** will apply the mitigation in audit mode only. You will be notified if you need to restart the process or app, or if you need to restart Windows.

5. Repeat this for all the apps and mitigations you want to configure. Click **Apply** when you're done setting up your configuration.

### PowerShell

To set app-level mitigations to audit mode, use `Set-ProcessMitigation` with the **Audit mode** cmdlet. 

Configure each mitigation in the following format:


```PowerShell
Set-ProcessMitigation -<scope> <app executable> -<action> <mitigation or options>,<mitigation or options>,<mitigation or options>
```

Where:

- \<Scope>:
    - `-Name` to indicate the mitigations should be applied to a specific app. Specify the app's executable after this flag.
- \<Action>:
    - `-Enable` to enable the mitigation
    - `-Disable` to disable the mitigation
- \<Mitigation>:
    - The mitigation's cmdlet as defined in the following table. Each mitigation is separated with a comma.

| Mitigation | Audit mode cmdlet |
| - | - |
|Arbitrary code guard (ACG) |  AuditDynamicCode |
|Block low integrity images |  AuditImageLoad   |
|Block untrusted fonts | AuditFont,   FontAuditOnly |
|Code integrity guard |   AuditMicrosoftSigned,   AuditStoreSigned |
|Disable Win32k system calls  |   AuditSystemCall |
|Do not allow child processes |   AuditChildProcess |

For example, to enable Arbitrary Code Guard (ACG) in audit mode for an app named *testing.exe*, run the following command:

```PowerShell
Set-ProcesMitigation -Name c:\apps\lob\tests\testing.exe -Enable AuditDynamicCode
```

You can disable audit mode by replacing `-Enable` with `-Disable`.

## Review exploit protection audit events

To review which apps would have been blocked, open Event Viewer and filter for the following events in the Security-Mitigations log.

Feature | Provider/source | Event ID | Description
:-|:-|:-:|:-
Exploit protection | Security-Mitigations (Kernel Mode/User Mode) | 1 | ACG audit
Exploit protection | Security-Mitigations (Kernel Mode/User Mode) | 3 | Do not allow child processes audit
Exploit protection | Security-Mitigations (Kernel Mode/User Mode) | 5 | Block low integrity images audit
Exploit protection | Security-Mitigations (Kernel Mode/User Mode) | 7 | Block remote images audit
Exploit protection | Security-Mitigations (Kernel Mode/User Mode) | 9 | Disable win32k system calls audit
Exploit protection | Security-Mitigations (Kernel Mode/User Mode) | 11 | Code integrity guard audit

## Related topics
- [Comparison with Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit](emet-exploit-protection-exploit-guard.md)
- [Enable exploit protection](enable-exploit-protection.md)
- [Configure and audit exploit protection mitigations](customize-exploit-protection.md)
- [Import, export, and deploy exploit protection configurations](import-export-exploit-protection-emet-xml.md)
- [Troubleshoot exploit protection](troubleshoot-exploit-protection-mitigations.md)
- [Enable network protection](enable-network-protection.md)
- [Enable controlled folder access](enable-controlled-folders-exploit-guard.md)
- [Enable attack surface reduction](enable-attack-surface-reduction.md)