David (DWIZZZLE) Weston
@dwizzzle.bsky.social
Corporate Vice President, OS Security and Enterprise @Microsoft
My team just dropped Post-Quantum Cryptography to Windows Insiders and Microsoft Linux!! Yes, it’s open source techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microso...
Post-Quantum Cryptography Comes to Windows Insiders and Linux | Microsoft Community Hub
Introduction As the digital landscape continues to evolve, the emergence of quantum computing presents both significant opportunities and challenges....
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We are removing default admin in Windows 11, get your apps ready now blogs.windows.com/windowsdevel...
Enhance your application security with administrator protection
Introduction Administrator protection is a new Windows 11 platform security feature that aims to protect the admin users on the device while still allowing them to perform the necessary functions whic...
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My blog on how we are securing the agentic era on Windows 11 with MCP support announced at \\BUILD blogs.windows.com/windowsexper...
Securing the Model Context Protocol: Building a safer agentic future on Windows
As AI agents become more capable and integrated into daily workflows, the need for secure, standardized communication between tools and agents has never been greater. At Microsoft Build 2025, we’re an...
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"Microsoft's David Weston describes the new feature as the most significant architectural Windows security change in a generation." Great article from @darkreading.bsky.social www.darkreading.com/endpoint-sec...
Microsoft Readies Administrator Protection Option for Windows 11
Microsoft's David Weston describes the new feature as the most significant architectural Windows security change in a generation.
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Day in the life of a Black Hat reviewer submission #37/219: Here's 2 years of work in which we pwned several Internet exchanges and ISPs, spent 6 mos coordinating disclosure w/ 16 vendors, and a completed 40 slide deck & full whitepaper. #38: Cybersecurity is a serious concern to CEOs nowadays…
I’m suspiciously seeing a lot of Arsenal jerseys in the US recently. I suspect the “lifelong” man city fans are migrating… @tomwarren.co.uk
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Great blog post from my team on VBS ecnlaves! techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microso...
Everything Old Is New Again: Hardening the Trust Boundary of VBS Enclaves | Microsoft Community Hub
Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) enclaves use the hypervisor’s virtual trust levels (VTLs) to isolate regions of memory and code execution within a...
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Had a great discussion at @defcon.bsky.social X MCSC @munsecconf.bsky.social talking about AI and its impact to vulnerability finding and memory safe languages
New blog post from my team - Surface PCs with Intel include Pluton security processor using RUST!!! techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...
Understanding the Microsoft Pluton security processor - Windows IT Pro Blog
Take a deep dive into the Pluton security processor to learn more about this foundational technology.
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New video is live! Let’s dispel some rumors and dive into what we really know about China’s recently revealed stealth jets: youtu.be/oPM67JZuPjA?...
What do we know about China's new '6th generation' fighters?
YouTube video by Sandboxx
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Omg I got Covid sequel and it’s been one hard ride, much harder than the first time. I’ve had all my boosters but the latest (kicking myself for not prioritizing) and it’s really kicking me. Stay safe out there
Microsoft is planning some major changes to #Windows in 2025. David Weston-- @dwizzzle.bsky.social Microsoft's vice president of enterprise and OS security, outlined the company's new Windows Security Initiative at last month’s Microsoft Ignite conference. www.darkreading.com/endpoint-sec...
Microsoft Boosts Device Security With Windows Resiliency Initiative
Microsoft is readying a new release of Windows in 2025 that will have significant security controls, such as more resilient drivers and a "self-defending" operating system kernel.
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"I happen to continuously scrape Citibike data every minute." @riley.bsky.social discovers one of their side projects is suddenly potentially relevant to a murder.
Welp, I’m fully invested in the JonBenet investigation now and crawling Reddit to examine evidence. Thx Netflix
"We're ensuring this platform will enable security solution providers to have the access they need to detect and respond to threats without introducing complexity into the kernel, www.darkreading.com/endpoint-sec...
Microsoft Boosts Device Security With Windows Resiliency Initiative
Microsoft is readying a new release of Windows in 2025 that will have significant security controls such as more resilient drivers and "self-defending" operating system kernel.
darkreading.com
I’m doing my first project (TCG log parser in Rust) where I’m having AI generate a significant portion of the code, and I’m very torn.
great to see Arsenal playing like that today. Ødegaard was so good, and I can’t wait to see what we do with Nwaneri
Ignite session covering all the Windows Security newness just posted!! ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/sessio...
My keynote from SANS Offensive Operations in Hollywood. Attacking Intelligence: Attacking and Defending AI on The Edge I cover confidential GPUs, Windows Recall architecture, and post-compromise tradecraft with AI and lots more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zl1...
Keynote | Attacking Intelligence: Attacking and Defending AI on The Edge
YouTube video by SANS Offensive Operations
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Windows Recall with improved security architecture is now in the Windows Insider Preview Channel blogs.windows.com/windows-insi...
Previewing Recall with Click to Do on Copilot+ PCs with Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2415 (KB5046723) to the Dev Channel. With this update, we welcome Windows Insiders with Snapdragon-powered
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Super proud to be part of a team collaborating with the security org on this key feature to protect administrator access. 🤘
David (DWIZZZLE) Weston@dwizzzle.bsky.social · 2y agoMore details on “adminless” Windows 11 techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...
