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Surface expands its Secured-core portfolio with the new Surface Laptop 4 powered by AMD Ryzen™ Mobile Processors

April 19, 2021 TH Author Cybersecurity, firmware-level attacks, Secured-core PCs, Surface Laptop 4, UEFI

Microsoft is proud to announce our latest Secured-core offering, the all-new Surface Laptop 4 powered by AMD Ryzen™ Mobile Processors. These devices offer comprehensive security out-of-the-box with tightly integrated hardware, software, firmware, and identity protection layers.
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System Management Mode deep dive: How SMM isolation hardens the platform

November 12, 2020 TH Author Cybersecurity, hypervisor-protected code integrity (HVCI), SMM, SMM isolation, System Management Mode, UEFI, Windows

Key to defending the hypervisor, and by extension the rest of the OS, from low-level threats is protecting System Management Mode (SMM), an execution mode in x86-based processors that runs at a higher effective privilege than the hypervisor.
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UEFI scanner brings Microsoft Defender ATP protection to a new level

June 17, 2020 TH Author Cybersecurity, Endpoint security, firmware scanning, firmware-level attacks, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, Microsoft Defender Antivirus, Microsoft Defender ATP, Microsoft security intelligence, UEFI

The UEFI scanner is a new component of the built-in antivirus solution on Windows 10 and gives Microsoft Defender ATP the ability to scan inside of the firmware filesystem and perform security assessment.
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