EMET 5.5 Beta Release

It just kind of quietly slipped out but Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit team released a new EMET 5.5 Beta version a few weeks ago.

Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) version 5.5 Beta is now available - Security Research & Defense

From the post:

EMET 5.5 Beta release includes new functionality and updates from EMET 5.2, including:

• Windows 10 compatibility
• Better configuration of various mitigations via GPO
• EAF/EAF+ pseudo-mitigation performance improvements
• Support for Windows 10’s new Untrusted font mitigation
• Various bug fixes

I’m waiting for the next stable version release on my systems so I haven’t yet upgraded from the current “release” version of EMET 5.2, but in case you are interested…

• EMET 5.5 Beta – Microsoft Download
• EMET 5.5 Beta User Guide – Microsoft Download
• EMET 5.2 – Microsoft Download

That same post goes on to discuss why some of the following security features “baked in” to Windows 10 are as good or better than EMET. Those features include (for supported systems);

• Device Guard
• CFG – Control Flow Guard
• AppLocker

More information about EMET is here; Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit

And here were some related posts I found interesting regarding EMET this news cycle.

• EMET: To be, or not to be, A Server-Based Protection Mechanism - Security Research & Defense
• Advanced Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) Tips - gHacks Tech News

Cheers,

Claus Valca