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UEFI Hypervisors - Winning the Race to Bare Metal

Improvements in Operating Systems security have created a race to "bare metal" between malware and protection software authors. Bare metal capabilities are defined as software or firmware applications that run outside the context of the OS and are therefore very powerful and difficult to detect. Hypervisors and SMM based rootkits are examples of bare metal capabilities. Because the digital battle ground is contracting, advantage goes to the one who can establish a presence there first.