Understanding Windows 10/2016's Super Security: VSM, Trustlets, Credential Guard, Device Guard and More

NTK 2016
Stopnja 200
Datum torek
17. maj 2016 13:45

With Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016, Microsoft introduced several new security technologies that simplify securing Hyper-V virtual machines and significantly protect Windows 10 from malware. They are significant game-changes in the computer security business and they, um, have one little problem: They're really complicated to understand and setup. Fortunately, however, Windows security author Mark Minasi -- the guy whose books actually explained what UAC and Windows Integrity Levels (WILs) do, as well as whose tools "chml" and "regil" gave you complete control of WILs -- has spent a lot of time with Isolated User Mode, Virtual Security Mode (no, it's not a virtual machine, no matter what anyone tells you), Credential Guard and Device Guard, and has prepared a quick talk that explains the underlying techs, what hardware you need to make it work, and how to get it running. Attend this talk and be the first person on your block to get VSM running!

Mark Minasi is a best-selling author, popular technology columnist, commentator, keynote speaker, and IT consultant. He first got the chance to play with a computer at a university class in 1973. At that time, he learned two things: •First, computers are neat. (People still said "neat" back in 1973. Hey, it was back in the 20th Century.) •Second, many technical people are very nice folks, but they can sure put you to sleep in an instant while explaining technical things. Mark transformed those two insights into a career making computers and networking easier and more fun to understand. He's done that by writing over a thousand computer columns, several dozen best-selling technical books, and explaining operating system and networking planning, installation, maintenance and repair to crowds from two to two thousand. An independent voice hailed as "Favorite Technical Author" by CertCities four times out of four, Mark has the unusual ability to take even the most technical topics, filter out the hype and explain them in plain English. Perhaps that's why when TechTarget hired him to deliver a webcast on PC tuning, he drew three times as many attendees as any of their previous webcasts, crashing Yahoo's servers, and why he's been hired to deliver keynote addresses at hundreds of techie conferences around the world. Mark is probably best known for his Mastering Windows Server and Complete PC Upgrade and Maintenance Guide books, both of which have seen more than 12 editions and sold over a million copies. An audience member at a recent talk remarked that he believed that Mark could "do a talk on watching paint dry that would be so good that people would be motivated to go home and paint a wall just to experience the joy of drying paint." While this has led to many very tempting offers from the likes of Sherwin-Williams and Behr, he's decided to stay with his first love... technology. Mark's humorous, provocative and yet informative style makes him a favorite of audiences around the world. Mark's firm, MR&D, is based in Pungo, a town in Virginia's Tidewater area which is distinguished by having one and only one traffic light.