Deploying application control policies using WDAC

WDAC policies allow you to configure zero-trust application control principles that determine which applications and drivers are allowed to run on Windows systems. A WDAC policy, previously referred to as a Configurable Code Integrity (CCI), contains policy rules and policy rule options that apply entirely to the system, irrelevant of the user who is logged in. This is important to note, as user-based targeting is currently not supported. In Windows Server 2022, WDAC can support up to 32 active policies at once. Policy rules can be defined based on the following attribute principles:

• Attributes of a code-signing certificate
• Attributes of app binaries that come from metadata, such as the original filename, version, or hash
• The app's reputation, as defined by Microsoft Intelligent Security Graph (ISG)
• The process that launched the app or the path where the process or file is located
• Managed packaged apps or...