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ASR Rules: What They Are, Why They’re Scary to Enable, and How to Do It Without Breaking Your Users

May 6, 2026

If you’ve spent any time in the Microsoft Defender portal or the Intune admin center, you’ve probably come across Attack Surface Reduction

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