Almost every day I hear from customers or friends who are worried about security threats reported in the media. Increasingly, I find myself saying: “That’s handled by default in Windows 10.”
Windows 10 contains many new security features. Last year, InfoWorld’s Fahmida Rashid provided a great overview in her article, “Why Windows 10 is the most secure Windows ever.” Here, I’ll get down to the nitty-gritty of the most important security features of Windows 10.
Virtualization-based security
You can’t talk about Windows 10 security without discussing a huge, underlying security architecture addition known as virtualization-based security (VBS). VBS uses software- and hardware-enforced mechanisms to create an isolated, hypervisor-restricted, specialized subsystem for storing, securing, transferring, and operating other sensitive subsystems and data.
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