Software developers and end-users are often interested in understanding how to resolve incorrect detections from their antivirus/security software, including Microsoft Defender. Such False Positives (FPs) can disrupt your use of your device by incorrectly blocking innocuous files or processes. However, you should take extreme care before concluding that a given detection is a false positiveContinue reading “Security Software False Positives”
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Defensive Technology: Ransomware Data Recovery
In a prior installment we looked at Controlled Folder Access, a Windows feature designed to hamper ransomware attacks by preventing untrusted processes from modifying files in certain user folders. In today’s post, we look at the other feature on the Ransomware protection page of the Windows Security Center App — Ransomware data recovery. User-Interface TheContinue reading “Defensive Technology: Ransomware Data Recovery”
Security Product Efficacy
I’ve written about security products previously, laying out the framing that security products combine sensors and throttles with threat intelligence to provide protection against threats. As a product engineer, I spend most of my time thinking about how to improve sensors and throttles to enhance protection, but those components only provide value if the threatContinue reading “Security Product Efficacy”
Web Category Filtering
Since the first days of the web, users and administrators have sought to control the flow of information from the Internet to the local device. There are many different ways to implement internet filters, and numerous goals that organizations may want to achieve: Today’s post explores the last of these: blocking content based on category.Continue reading “Web Category Filtering”
Understanding SmartScreen and Network Protection
The vast majority of cyberthreats arrive via one of two related sources: That means that by combining network-level sensors and throttles with threat intelligence (about attacker sites), security software can block a huge percentage of threats. Protection Implementation On Windows systems, that source of network threat information is commonly called SmartScreen, and support for queryingContinue reading “Understanding SmartScreen and Network Protection”
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