Your guide to some of the security enhancements announced this week
Ignite Amid the flood of news from Microsoft's Ignite conference in Florida this week, Redmond dropped word of several new features and additions to its cloud services aimed at protecting user data.
Office 365 will be getting additional security protections through Application Guard, the sandboxing tool Microsoft debuted with its Edge browser. The idea is that Application Guard will isolate documents, preventing malicious code from escaping the app and damaging the rest of the system. The feature is currently in limited preview.
"You will be able to open an untrusted Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file in a virtualized container. View, print, edit, and save changes to untrusted Office documents—all while benefiting from that same hardware-level security," microsoft crams office style sandboxes thwart malware infections
