When LSA Protection is enabled, it forces the lsass.exe process to run as a .
Cybercriminals know that if they can compromise the lsass.exe process, they can extract these credentials. This technique is known as . local security authority protection
Without LSA Protection, any process with SYSTEM privileges can open the LSA process, read its memory, and extract credentials. With it, even code running at the kernel level has to jump through hoops to interfere. When LSA Protection is enabled, it forces the lsass