First, it allowed us to interrupt and disrupt many of the common exploit kits employed by attackers at the time without waiting for the next Windows release, thus helping to protect our customers. And thus, EMET was born as a stop-gap solution to deliver tactical mitigations against certain zero-day software vulnerabilities.įor Microsoft, EMET proved useful for a couple of reasons. Our commercial customers were particularly exposed since it often took years to deploy new OS versions in large scale environments.
Despite substantial improvements in Windows OS security during that same period, it was clear that the way we shipped Windows at the time (3-4 years between major releases) was simply too slow to respond quickly to emerging threats.
Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing initiative was 7 years old in 2009 when we first released the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET).
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