Protect Your Firmware With the HP Z2 Mini Workstation
As organizations are making their security measures stricter and more sophisticated in the face of evolving cyber threats, attackers are increasingly turning their attention to the largely ignored chink in their armor – the BIOS. Before we see how the HP Z2 Mini workstation helps protects your BIOS, we will need to understand why it is so important to secure it.
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What is the importance of BIOS protection?
As the first software to run when your PC is powered on, it is responsible for securely booting your Operating System (OS).
If the BIOS is infected with malware, the attacker can get an unimagined amount of control over your PC. They can either steal priceless data that will cause major financial losses to your organization, or render your PC to an inoperable state and hamper business continuity.
Moreover, as antivirus cannot detect attacks on the firmware, they are extremely difficult to detect. Plus, firmware resides in the non-volatile on the circuit board. Thus, you cannot get rid of it by only erasing the hard drive.
All these factors make firmware attack recovery extremely difficult, and you may either need to replace the whole motherboard and even the entire PC – leading to a loss of valuable data, time and money.
How does HP Z2 Mini protect your firmware?
The HP Z2 Mini, along with a host of other security features, is protected by HP Sure Start – the industry's first self-healing BIOS. The hardware-enforced protection automatically detects and self-heals the BIOS from malware, rootkits, or corruption.
A Runtime Intrusion Detection system continuously monitors, detects and reports any changes to critical BIOS code in runtime memory (SMM) while the OS is running. This helps you increase your PC security, and minimize the chances of a security breach and downtime.
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