{"id":7306,"date":"2026-03-17T12:17:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/?post_type=announcement&#038;p=7306"},"modified":"2026-10-19T13:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:11:24","slug":"extended-tamper-protection-for-withsecure-xdr-products-for-windows","status":"publish","type":"announcement","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/announcements\/extended-tamper-protection-for-withsecure-xdr-products-for-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Extended Tamper Protection for WithSecure XDR products for Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the latest release of Windows Sensor\u00a02026.1,\u00a0we introduced further tamper protection capabilities in our\u00a0XDR\u00a0products\u00a0for Windows, including WithSecure EDR\u00a0and\u00a0WithSecure MDR.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the rise of\u00a0\u201cEDRSilencers\u201d\u00a0being used to block communications\u00a0from\u00a0XDR to\u00a0the backend\u00a0systems, we have introduced a secondary way of communicating to the WithSecure servers.\u00a0\u00a0If the network connection to our sensor gets blocked, automatic steps are taken to restore communication.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition, we\u00a0also will\u00a0send an event of type \u201cemergency_event\u201d\u00a0to inform the backend about changes made to the windows\u00a0firewall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Actions needed:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you, as an\u00a0administrator\u00a0are\u00a0monitoring\u00a0your processes in the systems &#8211; make sure to update your monitoring and alerting to\u00a0facilitate\u00a0this new use case.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the latest release of Windows Sensor\u00a02026.1,\u00a0we introduced further tamper protection capabilities in our\u00a0XDR\u00a0products\u00a0for Windows, including WithSecure EDR\u00a0and\u00a0WithSecure MDR.\u00a0 With the rise of\u00a0\u201cEDRSilencers\u201d\u00a0being used to block communications\u00a0from\u00a0XDR to\u00a0the backend\u00a0systems, we&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","announcement_category":[142],"class_list":["post-7306","announcement","type-announcement","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_system":"vanilla-import","import_hash":"94accf88990f96937c0a5cfd80a3b9091ed7accb","vanilla_article_id":32859,"legacy_author":"AndyF_WS","vanilla_url":"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/announcements-en\/kb\/articles\/32859-extended-tamper-protection-for-withsecure-xdr-products-for-windows","vanilla_category_id":142,"machine_translated":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcement\/7306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcement"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/announcement"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcement\/7306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8848,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcement\/7306\/revisions\/8848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"announcement_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcement_category?post=7306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}