The identity and device health for each employee is constantly checked with multifactor authentication, device verification, and persistent telemetry.
By embracing the internet as the primary access method for accessing applications, and reducing dependencies on internal or corporate-based applications and services, the Zero Trust networking team at Microsoft has been able to accelerate deployment of Zero Trust during COVID They have been able to move thousands of devices off the corporate network, all in an effort to support employee productivity and security during remote work.
For most people, everything was business as usual. Because Microsoft buildings were largely empty, the networking team could move devices in the building like phones, printers, and conference room technology from one segment of the network to another, without requiring teams or users to be physically onsite to make these changes. To support a great user experience, the team had to carefully scope their work and take on one thing at a time. Other current assets. Total current assets.
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The discrete chip also helps prevent emerging attack techniques, such as speculative execution a side channel attack that exploits CPU behavior and functionality. Patrick Hevesi, a vice president analyst at Gartner, said the biggest benefit of the Pluton chip is the possible elimination of the physical side channel attacks against standalone TPM-to-CPU communication channels.
For example, acoustic attacks can record the sound of a user's key strokes to steal their passphrase or the electromagnetic field EMF radiation emitted by a computer screen can be used to view information before it's encrypted.
Another benefit of the Pluton architecture is that Microsoft will control the firmware updates to the security processor and allow for direct updates from Windows Update; that allows the company to control and secure the firmware code and continue to add new security features as new versions of Windows roll out, according to Hevesi. Microsoft will also be able to advance the hardware and software security features such as secure boot, measured boot, and virtualization-based security right on a single SoC processor.
The Pluton chip will help secure remote devices because of both the physical layer and software based security feature integrations," Hevesi said. Michael Suby, research vice president for IDC's Security and Trust research service, said the SoC platform is a useful advance that in the short term won't radically change corporate PC-purchasing decisions.
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