It allows the ASUS AI suite to access the bios and make changes to the system. This can often be the cause of many an issue and it's best either removed or updated (removed is best). In fact anything like this needs to be removed as i said earlier suspect everything especially third party drivers or apps.
Do you use any other anti virus other than Defender?
just msert now and again, defenders alright but im not going to install that hd audio driver again because that just gave me errors on boot up, luckily i fixed it all from a restore point thank god