It’s a key part of the Windows design philosophy to keep code out of the kernel. By hosting the eBPF JIT in a driver, if it crashes, Windows will carry on running, and the driver can be reloaded ...

“KDP is intended to protect drivers and software running in the Windows kernel (i.e., the OS code itself) against data-driven attacks,” Andrea Allievi, a senior engineer with Microsoft’s ...

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich first revealed in May that Redmond started re-writing parts of the Windows 11 kernel in Rust. Today's Canary build also comes with a long list of new features ...