SecurityHealthService.exe
Summary
Windows Security Health Service - monitors and reports the health status of Windows security features (Defender, firewall, etc.) to the Windows Security Center.
SecurityHealthService.exe is the 525th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 10,549 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by services.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 58a5226321ccb28fbc259c1d0da1d3469dda2c81bbe516f3ecc6c10ba2dd166b28.03%
- 709f52f1898c1f79e1d6bc38923e56588fdbd9d1e4a592aa6d32a6df112d090e10.25%
- 16be999dcec6c2c4f799025acbfde04cce66b39160b6186a00f4bcfa2a1e41aa5.18%
- 3fb0b341ac76ed4003f216469a7fee5c64865f42d6fd31853e7615970d640de84.58%
- 0742e9b1a7fedd651f956da3e10c198125187542a360a424c63917dd4bd287733.66%
- 9b962cbdfaf32d0499614107b24888d1d5b838ce9b518042fc35af200d8c5a1f2.68%
- c5e0bffb4e4589aad87d8ba0f779dc94ed6f85a8003b71d0a858cc32912a3f0f2.63%
- 428853c320f204c5c2019e70cdab1bc64e5d81d321d405deb2a6340bdd489cca2.29%
- be6ba8b3d849646fedbc2742bd735cf993793c87056c43e9c3e715ac3e2c055d2.26%
- a49654a5bcab206e3bc2f13c9bc478564357171914c14d98bb8fc4fbb81ebc8d2.25%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe100%
Top Parents
- services.exe99.94%
Top Children
- msdt.exe23.26%
- regsvr32.exe13.95%
- CylanceSvc.exe6.98%
- conhost.exe4.65%
- WerFaultSecure.exe4.65%
- mmc.exe2.33%
- net1.exe2.33%
- WSCClient.exe2.33%
Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.
Security Analysis
What does SecurityHealthService.exe normally do?
Monitors Windows Defender, firewall, and other security feature status. Reports to the Windows Security dashboard.
When is SecurityHealthService.exe suspicious?
Not running on Windows 10/11 systems.
False positive notes
Standard Windows security component.
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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.