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Does Endpoint Privilege Manager block Macro attacks?

Partially, yes, but this is by design.

First, Microsoft already has protections in to properly block Macro attacks themselves. For more information on this, please see the Microsoft article, New feature in Office 2016 can block macros and help prevent infection.

But besides that, or if you had noprotection in place, when Netwrix Endpoint Policy Manager (formerly PolicyPak) SecureRun™ is in place, we will automatically block the Macro from running supported Endpoint Policy Manager Least Privilege Manager types including scripts, EXEs, MSIs, JARs and more, since the downloadable payload would be owned by the User and not Administrator, Trusted Installer, or anyone one the SecureRun list.