GettyMicrosoft has released a security extension for Google Chrome that isolates untrusted websites away from the underlying Windows 10 operating system. By diverting the user away from Chrome and into a Microsoft Edge browser session instead of course…Available only to users of the latest versions of Windows 10 Professional, Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Education, the extension works as part of the hardware-based isolation that Microsoft's Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) brings to the security party. To be more precise it brings the virtualized sandboxing protection of Windows Defender Application Guard out of the Microsoft Edge realm that it was previously restricted to. The extension uses a native application from Microsoft to support communication between the browser and the device's Application Guard settings. Defense in depth must always be the mantra for any organization looking to have as solid a security posture as possible and neither this new extension nor the Windows Defender Application Guard itself change that.

Source: Forbes May 25, 2019 09:33 UTC