Microsoft Edge: Building a Safer Browser by Microsoft Edge Dev Team
Microsoft Edge is a brand new browser, with new goals and requirements. This has allowed us to include these security enhancements, both brand new security features, and moving older opt-in features to be always-on. For this reason, we believe Microsoft Edge will be the most secure web browser that Microsoft has ever shipped. As security is a process, not a destination, we will continue to work on browser security improvements.
More details in Blog by Microsoft Edge Dev Team; such as 64-bit by default and Bug Bounty programs.
Summarised by TWC short-list:
Microsoft Edge is a brand new browser, with new goals and requirements. This has allowed us to include these security enhancements, both brand new security features, and moving older opt-in features to be always-on. For this reason, we believe Microsoft Edge will be the most secure web browser that Microsoft has ever shipped. As security is a process, not a destination, we will continue to work on browser security improvements.
More details in Blog by Microsoft Edge Dev Team; such as 64-bit by default and Bug Bounty programs.
Summarised by TWC short-list:
- Edge Login Process - Microsoft Passport will use asymmetric keys.
- Sandboxing the Edge App - The browser will always run in partial sandbox.
- Microsoft SmartScreen - Integrated into Windows 10 shell, Edge and other apps will be able to use it for screening websites before they can access it.
- Secure Model - No ActiveX and other controls
- Web Standards in Microsoft Edge as Security Features
- Defending against memory corruption -Preventing buffer (memory) overflow using a wide range of techniques.
- Extensions for Edge - Might not allow extensions based on manipulative languages such as Java and Silverlight.
