Microsoft's Maginot Line?

Sunbelt's Alex Eckbelberry has come up with another interesting angle on the Microsoft Kernel Patch Protection (KPP) issue.

What happens to x64 users when a new and unknown threat comes along (as happens all too frequently these days)? As Alex says, "PatchGuard creates a barrier to the kernel, against which security vendors (the major defensive bulwark for Microsoft) can't get in to to help the operating system against an attack, at least without permission through APIs."

Excellent article, Alex - and yet another proofpoint (if one was needed) that Microsoft needs to open up the PatchGuard APIs now, not 18 months down the road. How many new security threats do you think will happen in the next year and a half?


Mikhail Penkovsky,
Director of Sales and Marketing, Agnitum Ltd.