IE 11: More Security without sacrificing compatiblity

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According to this MSDN blog post, IE 11 takes some important steps to increase security, which include reduction of the use of the RC4 cipher suite (which has some well publicized weaknesses) and use of TLS 1.2, which supports more advanced cryptography and prevents many of the exploits that work on older versions of TLS, by default.

Read more about the details here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2013/11/12/ie11-automatically-makes-over-40-of-the-web-more-secure-while-making-sure-sites-continue-to-work.aspx

 

About The Author

Debra Littlejohn Shinder is a technology and security analyst and author specializing in identity, security and cybercrime, utilizing her past experience as a police officer and police academy/criminal justice instructor. She has written numerous books and articles for web and print publications and has been awarded the Microsoft MVP designation for fourteen years in a row.

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