In the past, "the conversation was always 'MFA everything,'" Murphy said. Nearly 90,000 Afghans have been resettled in the U.S., and in July, the Department of Homeland Security said 100,000 Ukrainians had been admitted in the country in the five months since the invasion and war with Russia began.Ĭorrection: An earlier version of this story misstated the month in which DHS said 100,000 Ukrainians had been admitted.
bases around the world and a government bureaucracy gutted by the Trump administration’s anti-immigration policies.Īlthough significant, the commitments pale in comparison to the number of refugees already in the U.S., with more set to arrive. That plan initially faced some hurdles, including the uncertain status of the Afghan people airlifted to U.S. In 2021, Uber, Mastercard and Facebook made commitments to hire 95,000 Afghan refugees. LinkedIn and Coursera pledged to work with refugee support agencies to offer training and networking for 6,000 and 7,500 refugees, respectively, so that they can find jobs in the U.S. As of June, 23.1% of Windows PCs were running Windows 11, according to a report from AdDuplex. The successor to the Windows 10 operating system, Windows 11 was first introduced in October 2021. "I expect a lot of the momentum - particularly in commercial - for Windows 11 will be driven by security." Meanwhile, Microsoft is also introducing features aimed at preventing malware (Smart App Control) and phishing (Microsoft Defender SmartScreen) in the latest Windows 11 update.Īll in all, "I would say Windows 11 is substantially more secure than 10 at this point, from a feature standpoint," Weston said.
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Those include hypervisor-protected code integrity, which prevents the modification of Windows kernel code such as drivers (as occurred in the WannaCry attack), and another feature aimed at thwarting credential theft (credential isolation with Local Security Authority protection). Other security features will be on by default in the new Windows 11 version as well.
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(The ability to run virtualization-based security features by default was a main driver for the higher CPU requirements for Windows 11, Weston has said.) Microsoft now feels confident that it's able to do that as part of the new version of Windows 11, according to Weston. While Microsoft has offered Credential Guard as an optional feature since Windows 10, few organizations have used the feature because it wasn't on by default, Weston said.įor Microsoft to turn the feature on by default, the company had to ensure that the underlying technology used by Credential Guard, known as virtualization-based security, could run without delivering an outsized hit to PC performance, he said. Illegitimate use of credentials is the largest source of data breaches by far, according to Verizon, which found that credentials usage was responsible for 48% of breaches in 2021.
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Ultimately, the new Windows 11 update "eradicates the most common techniques from a credential-dumping standpoint," Weston told Protocol.