Microsoft working on secure processor for Internet of Things | Wired

The article describes Microsoft’s Project Sopris, a prototype secure microcontroller for IoT devices that includes a separate security processor for encryption, integrity auditing, process isolation, and remote remediation (e.g., killing or restarting misbehaving processes). It outlines Sopris’s goal of enabling regular updates and compartmentalization to mitigate IoT threats, briefly notes historical botnet activity and industry efforts (Samsung, Intel) around IoT security, and frames the project as part of broader hardware-focused defenses rather than reporting any active incident.