Windows Defender Antivirus and Windows Security

The Windows Defender Antivirus and Windows Security subnodes contain all settings for Microsoft Defender that can be distributed using Group Policy as of June 2019.

The DriveLock Agent stores the settings from the DriveLock policy in the same location in the registry where Group Policy settings are stored. The Defender settings can then be found at

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender and/or
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender Security Center

If the Clear existing Microsoft Defender configuration setting is disabled, you can use Group Policy or another external tool to distribute some of the Defender settings in addition to the DriveLock policy.