Implementing Anti-Ransomware Group Policy When to Use - Hardening a Windows Active Directory environment against ransomware execution and propagation - Implementing defense-in-depth by blocking ransomware execution paths via Group Policy - Configuring AppLocker or WDAC rules to prevent unauthorized executables from running in user-writable directories - Enabling Controlled Folder Access to protect critical directories from unauthorized file modifications - Restricting lateral movement vectors (RDP, SMB, WMI) that ransomware uses to spread across the domain Do not use as a standalone ransomwar…