Microsoft has unveiled Project Freta, a potential future virtual-machine (VM) forensics service that will allow anyone to automatically ferret out malicious software hiding in memory on cloud infrastructure.
But unlike Microsoft’s commercial security services and innovations for Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), Project Freta comes from Microsoft Research and for now is classified as a ‘technology demonstration’.
“Project Freta intends to automate and democratize VM forensics to a point where every user and every enterprise can sweep volatile memory for unknown malware with the push of a button – no setup required,” says Mike Walker, a senior director at Microsoft Research’s New, or NExT, Security Ventures team.
