Quick Answer: What Is Secure Boot Windows 10?
Contents to Make Sure That Windows 10 Remains Safe from Malware, Microsoft Enabled Support for Secure Boot Which Works on Top of Uefi. Secure Boot Makes Sure...
To make sure that Windows 10 remains safe from Malware, Microsoft enabled support for Secure Boot which works on top of UEFI.
Secure Boot makes sure that when your PC boots up, it only uses firmware which is trusted by the manufacturer.
What is secure boot?
Secure Boot is one feature of the latest Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) 2.3.1 specification (Errata C). The feature defines an entirely new interface between operating system and firmware/BIOS. When enabled and fully configured, Secure Boot helps a computer resist attacks and infection from malware.
Does Windows 10 require secure boot?
If someone gets their hands on your PC, they can’t boot into UEFI and disable or try to install their key. There’s much more demand for Linux than free and open source processor firmware, so it probably won’t be quite as hard to find Windows 10 PCs with the option to disable Secure Boot intact—but still.
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