Bitdefender Announces Hypervisor Introspection to Defend Against Advanced Attacks

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  1. itman

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    http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-...efend-against-advanced-attacks/d/d-id/1328982
     
  2. Marcos

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    "With Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection, Bitdefender becomes the first, and currently the only, security vendor to offer a commercial hypervisor-based security solution."

    Itman: Do you know what extra features they have that no other vendors offer ? See https://www.eset.com/us/business/virtualization-security/
    Perhaps it's Citrix API support but that was not clearly stated in the paragraph with the statement.
     
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    According to XEN, this is Intel EPT/ AMD RVI chip specific:
    https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Virtual_Machine_Introspection

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    https://www.bitdefender.com/business/hypervisor-introspection.html
     
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    I guess Kaspersky already uses his own hypervisor for sometime ago... in fact if You enable Microsoft HyperV feature, Kaspersky will warn You and "Safe Mode" browser protection maybe be affected...

    I did it and got the warn, and some K. dev said me in K forum that only 1 HyperV can be active in Windows (10)...
     
  6. NormanF

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    HyperV can only be active on PCs that have it built into the BIOS and turned on.

    If you don't have hardware-enabled HyperV, you're out of luck.
     
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    To clarify, as I understand this: Hyper-V is included in several Windows 10 editions. To use it, the firmware and the CPU must be compatible con virtualization, and the corresponding firmware setting must be enabled. But this is a general virtualization setting, not exclusive to Hyper-V, and Hyper-V is not "built" into the firmware, but into Windows.
     
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