Organizations are digitally transforming their operations and running business-critical workloads that span across cloud, on-premises, and the edge. As a result, the need to secure workloads and data has never been greater.

Windows Server 2022 enables you to run business-critical workloads anywhere — in your datacenter, in the cloud, and at the edge — while staying ahead of emerging security threats and helping secure your data. This release builds on the advancements made in Windows Server 2019, the fastest adopted Windows Server ever.

Windows Server delivers advanced multi-layer security, hybrid capabilities with Azure, and a flexible platform to modernize applications with containers.

Public and private sectors continue to suffer major data breaches, at an average cost of $4.24 million in 2020.*

As cybersecurity threats escalate and the cost of incidents grows, security continues to be a top priority for customers. Windows Server 2022 includes enhanced security features with Secured-core server and secure connectivity.

Secure connectivity to business-critical assets: Secured connectivity adds an additional layer of security during transport. The release adds faster and more secure encrypted hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS) connections, and industry-standard AES-256 encryption with support for server message block (SMB) protocol.

Secured-core server: Benefit from powerful threat protection and multi-layer security from chip to cloud — across hardware, firmware, and the operating system — to help you proactively thwart potential attack vectors. It uses the TPM 2.0 and System Guard to boot up Windows Server securely and minimize risk from firmware vulnerabilities. Secured-core server includes virtualization-based security (VBS) features like Credential Guard and Hypervisor-protected code integrity (HVCI).

Secured-core server brings together powerful threat protections for multi-layer security across hardware, firmware, and the operating system. It uses the Trusted Platform Module 2.0 and Windows Defender System Guard to launch Windows Server securely and minimize risk from firmware vulnerabilities.

How it Works

Secured-core server combines hardware, firmware and driver capabilities to further protect the operating environment, from the boot process through to data in memory. It's built on three key pillars: simplified security, advanced protection and preventative defense. Including features such as:

Deploy security updates without having to reboot with Hotpatch.