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How Windows Defender Antivirus integrates hardware-based system integrity for informed, extensive endpoint protection

July 31, 2019 admin assertion engine, cybersecurity, hardware-based isolation, kernel-mode attacks, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, Microsoft security intelligence, next generation protection, Privilege Escalation, runtime attestation, Security Intelligence, Threat protection, token swap, token theft, Windows Defender Antivirus, Windows Security

Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:30:35 +0000

The deep integration of Windows Defender Antivirus with hardware-based isolation capabilities allows the detection of artifacts of attacks that tamper with kernel-mode agents at the hypervisor level.

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