Microsoft considers that security in the services it offers is its “priority” and that, to avoid incidents such as that of Crowdstrike, recorded last summer, it has developed the Windows Resiliency Initiative, which seeks to offer users greater control over the applications that can run on their computers and improves the protection of their identity against malware attacks.
The annual Microsoft Ignite 2024 event focuses on new features and updates that allow customers, partners and developers to take advantage of the full potential of Microsoft technology and change the way they approach their work.
At its inauguration, Microsoft shared its latest innovations in security and explained that strengthening it is its “priority”, as well as protecting the organization’s data from emerging threats and guaranteeing the integrity of its system “is essential.”
In this sense, it has developed the Windows Resiliency Initiativewhich covers four areas of work to strengthen reliability, allow more applications and users to run without administrator privileges, provide greater control over which applications and drivers can run, and improve identity protection to prevent phishing attacks ‘, as detailed in a press release shared on its website.
This initiative comes four months after Microsoft suffer the fall of its services due to a failure in an update to the CrowdStrike cybersecurity platformwhich caused multiple incidents in different services globally, including banks, airlines and the media.
Based on what it learned from the CrowdStrike security incident, Microsoft has developed the feature Quick Machine Recoverya feature that will allow IT administrators to run specific solutions from the Windows Update platform and without having to access the computer. This remote recovery will be available to the Windows Insider Program community in early 2025.
The firm has also recalled that in the last two decades it has worked with endpoint security partners as part of the Microsoft Virus Initiative (MVI), which have “deep integration with the Windows platform and are aligned with the strategy of Secure by Design to make Windows 11 the most secure operating system.
In this sense, he recalled some security related features enabled by default in the latest iteration of your operating system, such as Windows Hello authentication, Smart App Control, Trusted Platform Module (TPM 2.0), or Secure Boot.