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Defense Layers: A Case Study

Posted on October 28, 2021 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Defense Layers: A Case Study

Recently, I have been wondering why a site such as mail[.]ru(and it’s subdomains) is being blocked by Microsoft Exploit Guard’s Network Protection setting and not Umbrella. Considering that Network Protection does not give an actual block page, and instead a generic access denied page, it seems that the order of things were to blame. I…

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