Microsoft has announced the Windows Resiliency Initiative, aimed at avoiding a repeat of the prolonged worldwide IT outage caused by a buggy CrowdStrike update that took down millions of Windows machines by throwing them into a blue-screen-of-death (BSOD) loop and, in many cases, requiring a manual intervention to restore them. As part of that initiative, the company has announced that its working on Quick Machine Recovery, a feature that “will enable IT administrators to execute … Continue reading Microsoft plans to limit security products’ access to Windows kernel mode