Below even antivirus software level.
It’s been one hell of a decade for Processors. But Intel’s got something in store to kick the 20’s off right. The new processors they showed off at CES have a host of new security features, in addition to the expected power increase.
They partnered with Boston-based firm Cybereason, which will provide support for these new security features in the coming year.
The two new features are Hardware Shield and Threat Detection Technology (TDT). Both are part of Intel vPro.
Hardware Shield secures the UEFI/BIOS, and TDT utilizes CPU telemetry to stop malicious code as it happens.
“Intel TDT uses a combination of CPU telemetry and ML heuristics to detect attack-behavior,” Intel said in a press release today. “It detects ransomware and other threats that leave a footprint on Intel CPU performance monitoring unit (PMU).”
“The Intel PMU sits beneath applications, the OS, and virtualization layers on the system and delivers a more accurate representation of active threats, system-wide,” it added. “As threats are detected in real-time, Intel TDT sends a high-fidelity signal that can trigger remediation workflows in the security vendor’s code.”
This all winds up being fairly important, because ransomware attacks have been on the rise over the past few years. The fact that you’re getting protection via your processor is incredible.
Source: ZDNet
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