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Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 

Another way to limit the impact of a compromise is by using a security mitigation software solution, such as  Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) or Microsoft's AppLocker. Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit functions by intercepting application programming interface, or API calls, and enforcing protection profiles on those calls. This way, dangerous or malicious calls can be prevented.

EMET doesn't run as a service and isn't attached to an application like a debugger. Instead, EMET leverages a shim infrastructure built into Windows, called the application compatibility framework. This is a highly optimized low-level interface and, as such, EMET presents ...