Since a recommendation site or at least a basic guide for hardening iOS is on the table, wouldn’t it make sense to offer such a guide for Windows as well? Many of us are still dependent on Windows let it be because of certain app/ program compatibilty missings or issues on Linux or due to our jobs…

This has already been covered. To avoid topics with similar areas, please consider doing your own search through the forum. You can use discourse search function or cmd + f to search for keywords. [image] Windows Guide Guide Suggestions Hi, Some people know me by name in …

My bad, I have some work to do by the way so I can’t pay attention to everything nor didnt I have time yet to discover everything at this forum here. I’ll post my suggestions there. Topic can be closed

Yep! We’ve been working on the Windows guide for a while. Hope to get it done soon. Feel free to take a look at the PR and contribute, we appreciate all contributions!

Was there ever an update on this?

[image] exaCORE: There was a big discussion here: 'Hardening' Windows - #95 by Sprout3425 I appreciate your reply! I’m reading the thread now.

[image] Instructions on Hardening Windows (What I Have Learnt So Far) General Disclaimer: I have no knowledge in this field, therefore, I have certainly missed steps, or done steps incorrectly, so please feel free to correct me. Furthermore, make sure you understand the pu…

This is something that unfortunately has languished because I know that to write it I would have to do a lot of research to know it is correct. We were thinking of a guide something along the lines of setting some LGPOs, however I do want to avoid something which breaks normal functionality of Wind…

Maybe we need a UI to let users selecting related policies to create their custom LGPO config files. It’s also exhausting to explain every policy suggestion though.

That sounds like a lot of work for an OS that isn’t recommended.

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