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Posted on 05/04/2017 6:12:05 PM PDT by dayglored
Microsoft today asked enterprise customers to test a new anti-malware, anti-exploit technology in Windows 10's baked-in browser.
Windows 10's latest preview, tagged as build 16188 and released Thursday, includes Windows Defender Application Guard, a virtualization-based feature that isolates the contents of a tab in Edge, the OS's default browser, from the rest of the system.
While Application Guard was announced in September, and went through limited testing in the months since, today marked its first appearance to all Insiders running Windows 10 Enterprise. Users must manually toggle on Application Guard from a setting dialog, then open a tab within Edge by selecting "New Application Guard Window" from the browser's menu.
Application Guard is available only in the U.S. English version of build 16188 for Windows 10 Enterprise, and requires a PC that supports Hyper-V, Microsoft's virtualization technology.
Like sandboxing -- another anti-exploit approach browsers rely on -- the virtualization of an Edge tab blocks viewed content and downloaded files from harming the system. Malware that gets into the virtualized "container" cannot access the user's identity credentials, will find no data when it starts sniffing and cannot connect with other systems on the network. Think of it as a malware dead-end.
(Lots more at the link.)
(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...
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Half of our Enterprise applications that run in the browser routinely have to access the rest of the drive for attachments, hot links, interactivity with other applications, etc. Microsoft was always really big on big time feature creep, which was inevitably accompanied by malware creep. Now that a generation of OS/app/browser development assumes that stuff is there, throwing up new road blocks is going to frustrate a lot of people.
So happy I don’t have to deal with that crap anymore.
I switched over to Apple because of crap just like this P.C. every week.
It got real old and tiresome of checking for viruses, malware, etc..
I have owned my iMac for a while now and not one time have I had to deal with this.
Same thing is happening in my company with regard to network security issues. for decades we had a policy of "Fortify the perimeter, but inside, let the engineers do what they need to, to get their work done."
Now we're having to tighten everything down, enforce 2FA even on the LAN for certain services, etc. and the p!ssing and moaning is about to start.
And that has little to do with Microsoft; it's about government security regulations.
“Microsoft today asked enterprise customers to test a new anti-malware, anti-exploit technology in Windows...”
In other words, just a typical Microsoft OS release. /s
Well, in fairness, MS is hardly the first company to use their customers as their beta testers. At least this time they’re being upfront about it. LOL
Baked in browser? More like half-baked.
Your QA results (which MS doesn't pay for, YOU DO, IN PRODUCTION) will be incorporated into Wibblowz 11 which will be the "Best Ever" Until 'blows 12 arrives, which you will also pay Mslop for the privilege of Alpha and Beta testing.
Lather, Rinse, Repeat for another 30 years...
Is it “use our Edge browser or get viruses and spyware”?
Edge isn’t available for LTSB.
LTS branch users run Internet Explorer 11.
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