[XBO] Microsoft talks about the security of Xbox One

[XBO] Microsoft talks about the security of Xbox One

This is a first, that Microsoft has discussed the security of its Xbox One console, which, it must be admitted, is exemplary. It is simply the only console that will not yield on its securities, the proof that the firm of Redmond learns from these errors. 

 

It is a Microsoft developer, Tony Chen , who spoke on the security of the console, he was responsible for development and architect for Xbox Live. Between 2011 and 2013, he was responsible for the security development of Xbox One and he worked with the hardware team and AMD to successfully launch the Xbox One console in 2013 that has never been hacked or bypassed for 6 years .

He recalled that the Xbox One is an undeniable success of security, in his presentation, he discussed the way in which, Microsoft has arrived with the Xbox One. This includes details on the custom SoC built with AMD and management of flash memory, hard drive and DRAM memory.

According to him it is impossible to hack the Xbox One, reminding that nothing will work, hardware level attacks, glitch, bus sniffing, jtag ... nothing works, software side, the ODD, HDD, NAND, DRAM , Southbridge, everything is impenetrable, only the CPU could see plain text, but there is so much security level with ERA (gameOS), SRA (systemOS) and the security processor there are two other layers: hostOS (access HW) and Hypervisor (the villain), in short you'll understand ... there is even a component in the bootrom that supervises if there is unsigned code or critical components, in execution, so that if the hackers publish a code, the console will be updated quickly. 

What is certain is that Microsoft seems to have learned from their 17 errors made on Xbox: https: //events.ccc.d...-paper_xbox.pdf