Security News > 2021 > October > Why Windows 11's security is such a big deal

Microsoft's second Security Signals report shows that enterprise security decision-makers are concerned about the security impact of hybrid work, and they expect PC hardware to help, said Dave Weston, director of OS security at Microsoft.

"On one hand, that is somewhat intuitive because you're losing Intrusion Detection Systems and some of the network-based analysis and of course the physical protection of being on campus." But it also underlines that while Windows 10 has the same features for zero-trust security approaches that are built into Windows 11, they haven't been adopted broadly because people just don't turn them on.

Based on telemetry from Windows Insiders trying out Windows 11, Weston said a lot of PCs are ready to run these hardware-based security protections, and in many cases you won't notice they're running.

There's a new in-depth guide to the security architecture of Windows 11 to help them, but application testing may also be key for commercial adoption, especially as the Windows team starts to build security on top of the new baseline.

Further down the line, virtualization will be able to protect applications more by running them in individual Krypton containers-a feature Microsoft announced for what was going to be Windows 10X but hasn't yet built into Windows 11.

SEE: Windows evolves: Windows 11, and the future of Windows 10.

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