Understand the secure foundations of Microsoft Edge

In recent years, malicious attacks on applications such as browsers and document readers have become more common and keeping up with new threats is even harder. Software isolation seeks to contain the damage in the event an application is successfully compromised by an exploit.

Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Defender Application Guard (formerly Windows Defender Application Guard [WDAG]) combine for both a software and hardware isolation approach to security. This approach lets untrusted sites launch inside a container and the isolation helps enterprises safeguard their corporate network and data in case the site users visited is compromised or is malicious. Microsoft Edge provides the highest level of protection against zero-day exploits, unpatched vulnerabilities, and web-based malware.