14 DAY TRIAL // Next week’s RSA serves as the perfect opportunity for Microsoft to brag about the improvements the company is making in Windows 10, so today it teased a total of 6 announcements that will be made during the event for customers across the world.
Microsoft wants to use the RSA to discuss Windows 10 security improvements in detail, but the firm will also share more information on a variety of topics, such as the NSA clearing Windows 10 and Surface for classified use.
The Redmond-based software giant explained that it would also talk the enhanced security capabilities with Surface Enterprise Management Mode, as well as its efforts to extend device management in Windows 10. Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection will also have its own part of the keynote, and so will Windows Analytics.
Windows Hello and Windows 10
One particular session will involve what Microsoft calls “the quest for No More Passwords with Windows Hello,” and this includes a partnership of the software firm with Intel to increase Windows Hello within Intel’s Authenticate technology.
“This integration enables Windows Hello to take full advantage of Authenticate’s hardware-based authentication factors to help protect them from even the most advanced attacks. Together with Intel, we expect to deliver Windows devices with this integration capability by the end of 2017,” the firm says.
Other Windows 10 improvements will also be part of the Windows Hello session, such as the recently-introduced Dynamic Lock that is supposed to lock a computer when the user leaves the desk. Dynamic Lock uses a paired Bluetooth phone to detect when the user is no longer in the proximity of the device, triggering a device lock to secure the data.
Dynamic Lock is currently available in preview builds of Windows 10 Creators Update, but should become available to everyone in April when the new OS update goes live.
More information on everything security will be discussed at RSA next week, but it’s worth mentioning that most of these announcements concern enterprises and not necessarily consumers.