Intel pulled the wraps off its latest vPro platform powered by its 12th Gen Core processors last week. The platform contains security enhancements including:
Threat Detection Technology (TDT), a hardware-based way to detect ransomware in an efficient and timely manner
Anomalous behavior detection to identify living-off-the-land and supply chain attacks
Silicon-based capabilities that support the next wave of expected operating system virtualization and chipset enhancements with fault injection to help prevent malicious code injections
Threat Detection Technology uses machine learning
Two companies immediately announcing their support of the platform were ESET and ConnectWise. “Using Intel’s TDT, the detection of malware execution—including malicious encryption—is assisted through the use of machine-learning heuristics on suspicious patterns sourced directly from the CPU performance monitoring unit,” Előd Kironský, ESET’s chief of endpoint solutions and security technologies, explained in an interview. “The suspicious activity is shared with the ESET endpoint security solution, which then remediates the threat.”