Windows 11 ships with a far stronger security baseline than its predecessors, but real-world attackers and configuration gaps still find workarounds—meaning Defender and Windows Security are necessary, not sufficient, for modern threat defense. Background
Windows 11’s built-in protections—Microsoft Defender Antivirus, SmartScreen, Core Isolation (VBS), HVCI, Controlled Folder Access, BitLocker, and hardware requirements like TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot—raise the overall security floor for...