{"id":10232,"date":"2019-06-25T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=10232"},"modified":"2019-06-25T08:36:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T06:36:36","slug":"windows-defender-is-the-firewall-blocking-the-real-time-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/06\/25\/windows-defender-is-the-firewall-blocking-the-real-time-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Defender: Is the firewall blocking the real-time protection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Schutz.jpg\" width=\"40\" height=\"47\" align=\"left\" \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/25\/windows-defender-blockt-die-firewall-den-echtzeit-schutz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]Companies using Windows Defender in Windows environments should ensure that Cloud\/MAPS is active and that communication for real-time protection is not blocked by the firewall.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vg07.met.vgwort.de\/na\/b4e5d35bed4a417d82dbcdf859518471\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>This is pointed out by the security researcher with the @SwiftOnSecurity alias in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwiftOnSecurity\/status\/1029933529264803840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"de\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">DOES YOUR COMPANY USE WINDOWS DEFENDER?<\/p>\n<p>Make sure Cloud\/MAPS is on, and run this command to verify your corporate firewall isn't blocking communications for real-time protection!<br \/>\nThis is the only way to find out. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IB4E82doB8\">pic.twitter.com\/IB4E82doB8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwiftOnSecurity\/status\/1029933529264803840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">16. August 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"preserved74891a20d214ae0a13b3262c442957c\" class=\"wlWriterPreserve\"><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To do this, you must open an administrative prompt (otherwise there is an access error ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED, code 0x80070005) and navigate to the Windows Defender folder. Then enter the following command:<\/p>\n<p><em>mpcmdrun \u2013validatemapsconnection<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The command then reports whether the connection to the MAPS (Microsoft Advanced Protection Service) cloud service is possible for Defender. A description of the configuration and validation can be found in the Microsoft document <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/security\/threat-protection\/windows-defender-antivirus\/configure-network-connections-windows-defender-antivirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Configure and validate Windows Defender Antivirus network connections<\/a>. The MAPS service itself is described in the Microsoft document <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/security\/threat-protection\/windows-defender-antivirus\/utilize-microsoft-cloud-protection-windows-defender-antivirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Use next-gen technologies in Windows Defender Antivirus through cloud-delivered protection<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]Companies using Windows Defender in Windows environments should ensure that Cloud\/MAPS is active and that communication for real-time protection is not blocked by the firewall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,2],"tags":[773,69],"class_list":["post-10232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-windows","tag-defender","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}