Anti-Rootkit Security Beyond the OS

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @11:53AM from the building-a-better-wall dept.

Orome1 writes "Cybercriminals know how to evade current operating systems-based security, demanding a new paradigm – security beyond the operating system. On that note, McAfee demonstrated the workings of its new McAfee DeepSAFE technology at the Intel Developer Forum on Tuesday. Co-developed with Intel, it allows McAfee to develop hardware-assisted security products to take advantage of a 'deeper' security footprint. It sits beyond the operating system and close to the silicon, and by operating beyond the OS, it provides a direct view of system memory and processor activity."

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Ohhh by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-14 11:57 · Score: 2, Informative

Scary.
That just sounds like another level to infect by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-14 12:05 · Score: 2, Informative

Just like ring 0 and ring -1 have been abuse, I'm pretty sure that in a few years, we'll read headlines "New persistent rookit infects McAfee DeepSafe"!
better idea by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-14 12:06 · Score: 2, Informative

hammer a nail through the cpu it'll kill all the vira, and it will still have more computing power left than if it was running McAfee ...
turtles by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-14 12:12 · Score: 3, Informative

it's turtles all the way down!