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  • Microsoft extends mitigation security tool for vendors

    To help towards many efforts, Microsoft has declared a new mitigation security utility for application developers and information technology professionals. The Enhanced Mitigation Evaluation Toolkit (EMET), recently at Version 1.0.2, is believed as an extensible framework that will include future mitigation technologies as they are launched, according to a Microsoft blog.

    mitigation security utility This EMET release contains just four mitigations: dynamic data execution prevention, heap spray allocation, NULL page allocation and structured exception handing. EMET users can choose into these mitigations for their applications by using the command line in the utility. Users don’t have to have to reconcile their applications after using the tool, according to the blog. EMET is the latest component in Microsoft’s overall Security Development Lifecycle strategy. It permits developers to write security into applications at a more grainy or command-line level. Thus, rather of securing an entire application, programmers can code security parameters into a single process.

    Security stars like the idea of going deep into the anatomy of an application instead of just depending on antivirus software or operating system security functions. For instance, the president of Lieberman Software, called EMET a good value-add for Microsoft ISVs. This contributes an extra post-production step that permits ISVs to make it much harder for hackers to overwork their applications. The extra post-production step hardens the rules for memory usage, finer grained protection and also strengthens the exclusion mechanisms.

    As hackers begin to objective more on specific applications, developers have started to pay more care to embedded security. EMET is worth a try in the face of server attacks, automated bugs, browser attacks and stack-buffer overflow exploits. Every third-party partner, application developer or part time coder should at least consider checking out the new EMET from Microsoft said by the director of security at nCircle. The toolkit makes it even easier to employ the newest security improvement mitigations built into the newer Microsoft operating systems.

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