Following my recent posts concerning my experiences with Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and secure booting, here's a Q&A with Mark Doran, the UEFI forum president. In general I agree ...

A boot sequence describes the initial set of operations performed by a device at the start of the boot process. During this stage, available resources reside in some form of local, nonvolatile storage ...

Microsoft’s own hardware certification requirements for Windows 8 show that the company is attempting to lock down ARM-based hardware. Microsoft’s own hardware certification requirements for Windows 8 ...

The major milestones that allowed this were making the "Secure Boot Off" option a mandatory part of platforms certified for Windows 8. The other was the development and the adoption of the MOK concept ...

Future PC games are starting to demand hardware security features like TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot. While some gamers worry about ...

Enabling Secure Boot is an important step in upgrading to Windows 11, as it's part of the system requirements. It ensures that unauthorized software can't run on your ...

To disable Secure Boot, you need to restart your PC and open the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). Secure Boot is a feature in your PC's UEFI that only ...

As our reliance on technology grows, so does the need for robust security measures that protect systems from unauthorized access and malicious attacks. One critical area of focus is the system's boot ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Microsoft is detailing some of its security procedures for ...

Easily safeguard your PC by enabling Administrator Protection within Windows 11's Security application - the benefits far ...