Windows 10: Device/Credential Guard are not Compatible - Virtualization

_jprince · May 27, 2019

I am unable to launch any Virtual Machines using VmWare Workstation Player on Windows 10 1809 x64 on a Dell Latitude 7490 laptop. I receive the following error.

I have tried every solution I saw online with no success. After taking all the steps described below I tried updating to Windows 10 1903, tried all the same steps and still had no luck. I also tried VirtualBox where I didn't get any errors Virtual Machines would not launch, the screen just stayed black. I am out of ideas and looking for assistance.

I use windows defender for security, I tried turning windows defender real-time protection off and still receive the same error in Vmware.

I do not use hyper-v

Core Isolation / Memory protection was already turned off

I tried turning Core Isolation / Memory Protection on so that I could turn it off but I wasn't even able to turn it on.

Bios - Virtualization is both supported and enabled

Group Policy - I own and manage my computer. There is no group policy on this pc.

Manage Windows Defender Credential Guard (Windows 10) | Microsoft Docs

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off - This didnt work

:)

Brink · May 27, 2019

Credential Guard lab companion

If you have heard about Credential Guard in Windows Server 2016 (and in Windows 10), but do not have an environment to try it out, here is a lab environment we built for you to play.

Lab access

The link will lead you to a sign up page, after that, you will see the following labs listed for Windows Server 2016:

Windows Server 2016 labs

There are 3 exercises in the “Implementing Breach Resistance Security in Windows Server 2016”:

Credential Guard

Remote Credential Guard

Device Guard

This blogpost will walk you through the Credential Guard lab details.

After click on the link of Breach Resistance lab, you be required to sign in and then you can launch the lab:

Sign-in

Launch page

It takes a few minutes to create the VMs, and once it has done, you will see the following machines prepared:

Initialize

DC: domain controller, which is not used for this exercise.

SRV01 and SRV02: both are Windows Server 2016, and used for the lab exercise.

Lab exercise – Explained

The steps are listed in the Content section:

Content

This lab is structured to cover the following in sequence:

Understand how attackers can use the hash in memory to gain access to domain controllers

Configure Credential Guard

Verify the hash in memory is protected using Credential Guard

You can follow the steps listed under the content section to complete the lab, the intent of the blog, is to break the procedures into groups, to help you understand the exercise better.

Prep the hash

Lsass.exe is the process which handles user logon, it stores the user credential information in its memory. The memory is cleared when the machine starts up. In this lab environment, all the virtual machines start at the time lab launches, when you logon to the machine, you will only have the logon user credential information in memory. In order to demonstrate an attacker gaining user access using other account’s hash, the first part of the lab is to simulate a server which has been running for a while, different users had remotely or locally connected to it, therefore, lsass memory stored many different user credential information.
This is accomplished by step 1-8.

Retrieving credential hash

Mimikatz is a popular tool for retrieving lsass memory information. The tool has been copied to the lab machines, step 9-13 walk you through the process of dumping lsass memory using Mimikatz.

Pass the Hash

Pass the hash is a hacking technique that allows an attacker to authenticate by using the underlying NTLM, instead of specifying the user password. In step 14 to 24, you will extract LabAdmin hash from lsass using Mimikatz, and use the hash to open a PowerShell console, and perform a couple of operations using the LabAdmin privilege:

Add a user to the domain admin group

Open remote PowerShell connection to a domain controller

Both operations could not be performed by the logon user. But using the hash of the LabAdmin, an attacker will be able to do it using the information retrieve from Lsass memory.

Configure and verify Credential Guard

Step 25 to 36 illustrate the steps to configure credential guard, then verify its status using msinfo32.exe and PowerShell.

Step 37 to 43 goes further to use Mimikatz to show the hash in Lsass is now encrypted using Credential Guard.

More info

The exercise illustrated the benefit of Credential Guard in Windows Server 2016 as well as Windows 10. For more information, you can find here.
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Source: Credential Guard lab companion Datacenter and Private Cloud Security Blog

See also:

Enable or Disable Credential Guard in Windows 10 Windows 10 Security System Tutorials

Verify if Credential Guard is Enabled or Disabled in Windows 10 Windows 10 Security System Tutorials

Ahnafic · May 27, 2019

Turn off Credential Guard or Device Guard

Whenever I try to run a vm in vmware,it gives this error:

VMware Workstation and Device/Credential Guard are not compatible. VMware Workstation can be run after disabling Device/Credential Guard.

Any help?

rdmueller · May 27, 2019

Device Credential Guard

When I install Docker on windows (with Hyper-V enabled) and try to run the VM-Ware player, I get the following error message:

VMware Workstation and Device/Credential Guard are not compatible.
VMware Workstation can be run after disabling Device/Credential Guard.
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It seems that is the standard way to handle this situation, but I try to be security aware Questions like VMware Player and Device/Credential Guard are not compatible and What are these VMWare instructions actually doing? (Disabling device guard and removing EFI variables) don't explain the background

So what is the Device/Credential Guard and what impact does it have if I disable it?

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