14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft is providing customers with backstage details of its Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC), the company’s AntiMalware organization. The “Introducing the Microsoft Malware Protection Center” whitepaper can be downloaded free of charge from the software giant, focused not only on MMPC, but also on the evolving malware landscape.
“The MMPC is one of the most experienced antimalware organizations in the industry. Its mission is to help protect customers and systems, quickly respond to malware outbreaks, advise customers, and engage in valuable partnerships,” the company notes.
The MMPC team is tasked with providing security products and services that span a total of over 600 million computers.
In this regard, MMPC’s reach makes its efforts global, with users in more than 270 markets benefiting from them, Microsoft reveals.
“The MMPC team works closely with product teams at Microsoft to help ensure that products have the latest antimalware definitions and can provide accurate and actionable telemetry—data that can be used for further research,” the company added.
MMPC’s antimalware work reverberates across all of the software giant’s technologies, but some hold more importance to the team than others, including: Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection, Windows Live, Internet Explorer, Bing, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), Windows Defender, and Windows Intune.
All of the products enumerated above contribute to the telemetry that Microsoft uses in order to map the threat landscape in great detail, data which is put to good use when it comes down to protecting customers worldwide.
“To be a malware creator, you just have to know what’s current. But on the antimalware side there’s deep expertise. That malware creator only has to get it right once, but the antimalware person has to get it right every time,” revealed Jimmy Kuo, MMPC Principal Architect.