Chapter 7: Securing Data and Applications

Security is essential for your devices and your end users. Data leakage seems to occur very often nowadays. Almost every day, you read that a company, a web shop, or a forum has been hacked and that their customers' details are for sale on the dark web. In this chapter, you will about learn some relevant security features that you can implement in Windows 10 to secure your system.

This chapter introduces the sixth objective, which is to know how you can configure the User Account Control (UAC) prompts, set threat management, implement disk and file encryption, and use AppLocker to control whether or not the end user can open applications.

The following objectives will be covered in this chapter:

• Configuring User Account Control
• Configuring Threat Protection
• Implementing encryption
• Using AppLocker

By providing you with the skills to configure User Account Control, configure Threat Protection, and implement encryption on disk and files in Windows 10, this chapter will help you prepare for the MD-100 (Windows 10) exam, which is part of the Microsoft 365 Certified: Modern Desktop Administrator Associate certification.