

These features are a combination of enterprise-related hardware, firmware and software security features that, when configured together, will lock down a device so that it can only run trusted applications and hence reduce the exposed attack surface to malware.Īnyway, the main culprit that causes the issue is incompatibility between VMWare Workstation and Hyper-V or Windows Hypervisor Platform. Windows Defender Device Guard is split into two features known as Windows Defender Exploit Guard and Windows Defender Application Control. And to make the matter worse, the issue could be caused not by just Device Guard and Credential Guard, even though the error message makes no mention of others.Ĭredential Guard uses virtualization-based security to isolate secrets so that only privileged system software can access them, and is mostly implemented in enterprise environment. The problem happens even though you have no idea what’s Device Guard and Credential Guard about, and certainly not enable them.
