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Configure self-healing rollback for Windows endpoints

Serverless Security

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Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

Stack

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Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments.

This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.

Elastic Defend's self-healing feature rolls back file changes on Windows endpoints when a prevention alert is generated by enabled protection features. File changes that occurred on the host within five minutes before the prevention alert will revert to their previous state (which may be up to two hours before the alert).

This can help contain the impact of malicious activity, as Elastic Defend not only stops the activity but also erases any attack artifacts deployed prior to detection.

Requirements
Warning

This feature can cause permanent data loss since it overwrites recent changes and deletes recently added files on the host. Self-healing rollback targets the changes related to a detected threat, but may also include incidental actions that aren’t directly related to the threat.

Also, rollback is triggered by every Elastic Defend prevention alert, so you should tune your system to eliminate false positives before enabling this feature.

  1. Find Policies in the navigation menu or by using the global search field, then select the integration policy you want to configure.
  2. Scroll down to the bottom of the policy and click Show advanced settings.
  3. Enter true for the setting windows.advanced.alerts.rollback.self_healing.enabled.
  4. Click Save.