{"id":11574,"date":"2019-10-22T01:36:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T23:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=11574"},"modified":"2019-10-22T01:37:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T23:37:40","slug":"microsoft-stellt-secured-core-pcs-mit-firmware-schutz-vor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/10\/22\/microsoft-stellt-secured-core-pcs-mit-firmware-schutz-vor\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Introduces Secured Core PCs w. Firmware Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Schutz.jpg\" width=\"40\" align=\"left\" height=\"47\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/22\/microsoft-stellt-secured-core-pcs-mit-firmware-schutz-vor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]Microsoft has introduced a new development, the Secured Core PCs with additional protection against firmware attacks. This standard was defined together with OEM vendors. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I became aware of the new development via the following tweet from Dave Weston (Microsoft). <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Very proud to announce Microsoft's secured-core PCs. These devices have virtualization-based security and Firmware\/SMM hardware protection right out of the box. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z3LDJIFDKO\">https:\/\/t.co\/Z3LDJIFDKO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave dwizzzle Weston (@dwizzzleMSFT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwizzzleMSFT\/status\/1186298002731720704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>The details can be found in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security\/blog\/2019\/10\/21\/microsoft-and-partners-design-new-device-security-requirements-to-protect-against-targeted-firmware-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this Microsoft blog post<\/a> \u2013 articles can also be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/microsoft-introduces-secured-core-pcs-with-extra-protection-against-firmware-attacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">neowin.net<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/new-windows-10-secured-core-pcs-block-firmware-level-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bleeping Computer<\/a>, for example. <\/p>\n<p>In short: Secured core PCs are devices that use a number of security technologies to prevent attacks at the firmware level. Microsoft wants to integrate software-based protection for operating systems and associated services. This step became necessary because the vulnerabilities targeting firmware have increased sharply in recent years &#8211; from only 6 in 2016 to over 400 in 2017. Secured core PCs addressing enterprises in a high secure environment and are available from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windowsforbusiness\/windows10-secured-core-computers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">variety of hardware manufacturers<\/a>. These also include the new Surface Pro X for Business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]Microsoft has introduced a new development, the Secured Core PCs with additional protection against firmware attacks. This standard was defined together with OEM vendors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-11574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}