Getting started with Administrator protection
This week is all about the new functionality on Windows devices to help protect administrator users. That new functionality is Administrator protection. Administrator protection is aimed at protecting the users while still allowing them to perform their required elevated actions with just-in-time administrator privileges. That makes sure that when dealing with users that have local administrator privileges, instead of those users always having those high privileges, Administrator protection makes sure that those users must consent to actually activate those higher privileges. That makes sure that, by default, the user is now operating according to the least privilege concept and only gets those higher privileges when actually needed. In the end that lowers the attack vector for those users and makes sure that nothing happens without …