

Under the Firewall section on the Security Provider page, you can see the Microsoft Firewall application manages the Firewall settings, and that is nothing but Microsoft Defender.

You can manage Security providers on Windows 11 PC.Open Windows Security App – Click on Settings.How to check and identify the application providing firewall service on Windows 11 PCs? Can you identify the Firewall Application Enabled on Windows 11 using the following method? You can check this from the same Windows Security app discussed in the above section. Check Firewall Port is Open or Block on Windows 11 using PowerShell Command How to Check and Identify Firewall Application Enabled on Windows 11? In that case, the firewall component is managed by some other third-party applications such as Symantec or McAfee EPO. Suppose you are looking at a Windows 11 PC of an organization, and you can see this enabled.

As you can see below, Firewall & Network Protection is enabled as an out of the box setting.
