Microsoft announced the acquisition of Hexadite, a company based in Boston and working with researchers from Tel-Aviv, Israel. The company focuses specifically on developing automated solutions for incident management and system recovery.
If at first reading your company's expertise sounds like a nuclear science degree, what Microsoft plans to do with this acquisition is improve Advanced Threat Protection in Windows Defender with automatic possibilities investigation and remediation using the artificial intelligence, with Hexadite technology.
Microsoft's ultimate goal is to provide improved security in Windows 10, strengthen protection against zero-day attacks, ransomware and other cyberthreats in addition to malicious software and whose detection is usually based on legacy detection methods.
The entire Hexadite team will be hired by Microsoft and the company will be integrated into the Windows and Devices Group, which will mean emphasizing the improvement of security features in Windows 10.
"Our vision is to deliver a new generation of security capabilities to our customers to protect, detect and respond to the ever-evolving and ever-changing cyberthreat landscape," said Terry myerson, executive vice president of Microsoft's Windows and Devices Group.
"Hexadite technology and talent will enhance our existing capabilities and enable us to add new tools and services to Microsoft's powerful business security solutions."
Now that they have seen the "strong security solutions" I personally don't know... maybe with the procase new technologies like the one we mentioned above that Windows users can enjoy a safer environment.
