Security News > 2021 > February > Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge getting this Intel security feature
Chromium-based browsers such as Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome will soon support the Intel CET security feature to prevent a wide range of vulnerabilities.
Intel's Control-flow Enforcement Technology is a hardware security feature initially introduced in 2016 and added to Intel's 11th generation CPUs in 2020.
This week, Microsoft Edge vulnerability research lead Johnathan Norman tweeted that Microsoft Edge 90 would support the Intel CET feature in non-renderer processes.
This security feature does not appear to be specific to Microsoft Edge but is coming to all Chromium browsers, including Google Chrome, Brave, and Opera.
Windows 10 users running Intel 11th generation CPUs or AMD Zen 3 Ryzen CPUs, which also support CET, can use the Windows Task Manager to check if a process utilizes the hardware security feature.
' Once enabled, this column will show you which processes support the Intel CET security feature.
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