Microsoft has announced a new security feature for Windows 11 called Smart App Control, but to activate it, existing users of the operating system have to factory reset their PCs.<\/p>\n
PCWorld reported<\/strong><\/a> that new Windows 11 devices would ship with the latest security feature enabled, but users who already have Windows 11 will have to reset their PCs.<\/p>\n Microsoft has not set a launch date for Smart App Control. It said that the feature would ship with a future version of Windows.<\/p>\n In a Microsoft blog post<\/strong><\/a> on Tuesday, David Weston, the head of Enterprise and OS security at Microsoft, outlined the measures to combat cyber threats to Windows 11 and its shift to hybrid work.<\/p>\n Due to the shift to working from home some days of the week, Microsoft said Windows 11 had been designed to act as an operating system for hybrid businesses<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n However, cybercriminals have wasted no time improving their speed and accuracy in targeting the new hybrid work model.<\/p>\n Weston stated that this had put \u201ccybersecurity issues and risks\u201d at the top of the list of concerns for business decision-makers for 2022.<\/p>\n Smart App Control is part of Microsoft\u2019s measures in Windows 11 to account for these threats and is focused on providing app security without the App Store.<\/p>\n The Smart App Control will prevent malicious malware from running on Windows devices by blocking untrusted or unsigned applications.<\/p>\n This protection is more advanced than prior browser-based security functions like Smart Screen by being directly woven into the OS at the process level.<\/p>\n Smart App Control only allows processes to run which are predicted to be safe through code signing and an AI model for application trust in the Microsoft Cloud.<\/p>\n Microsoft said that these new systems ensure that users use safe and reliable applications on Windows 11.<\/p>\n Smart App Control is one of several coming security features Microsoft said it is developing for Windows 11.<\/p>\n Microsoft has announced Smart App Control, which will be rolled out in a future version of Windows 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341098,"featured_media":440246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,16],"tags":[123,77740,70233],"class_list":["post-440228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-smart-app-control","tag-windows-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440250,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440228\/revisions\/440250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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