Hardening WMI: Any security benefit to changing Impersonation level & separately, setting ‘Winmgmt Standalonehost?’

Question #1 Does changing the Default Impersonation Level in WMI to "anonymous" or "identify" help mitigate against WMI exploitation, implants, and persistent threats on a local machine? If so, please explain why… and… Continue reading Hardening WMI: Any security benefit to changing Impersonation level & separately, setting ‘Winmgmt Standalonehost?’