Security Baseline (User)

Overview

Purpose / Short Summary:

The Devicie Security Baseline (User) provides a starting point for organisations to begin their Endpoint security improvement journey, while remaining productive. It covers a wide range of items that encourage standardisation, improve administrators overview and improve device security with minimal impact to typical user activity.

Intune Description:

Inspired by CIS 3.0, while allowing for a secure, but productive experience. Configuration impacting Device Lock and Device Guard.

Scope:

This baseline should be applied to users, in conjunction with the “DEVICIE-PROD-Security Baseline (Device)” baseline.

Policy Impact Areas

When deployed, this policy will impact:

  • Enforcing Device Lock, with minimum requirements

  • Configuring Device Guard

Deployment Notes

  1. Pre-Deployment Considerations:

    • Windows Hello for Business suitability

  2. Post-Deployment Validation:

    • Verify Windows Defender configuration

    • Verify Windows Hello for Business being enabled, with 6+ number length required

Configuration Settings:

Name

Value

Administrative Templates

MSS (Legacy)

MSS: (AutoAdminLogon) Enable Automatic Logon (not recommended)

Disabled

Device Guard

Configure System Guard Launch

Unmanaged Enables Secure Launch if supported by hardware

Enable Virtualization Based Security

enable virtualization based security.

Credential Guard

(Enabled without lock) Turns on Credential Guard without UEFI lock.

Require Platform Security Features

Turns on VBS with Secure Boot.

Device Lock

Device Password Enabled

Enabled

  Alphanumeric Device Password Required

Password, Numeric PIN, or Alphanumeric PIN required.

  Device Password Expiration

365

  Device Password History

24

  Min Device Password Length

14

Minimum Password Age

1

 

Devicie Template Name

Security Baseline (User)

Default Intune Deployed Name

DEVICIE-PROD-Security Baseline (User)

Version

1.0

Template Last Updated

Nov 18, 2024

Document Status:

DRAFT

Document Last Updated:

Apr 10, 2025