IMPROVEMENTS MAKING IE
THE MOST SECURE VESRION
TO DATE
Advanced protection against
memory corruption attacks
Common bug classes are
strongly mitigated by new
memory protection features
Control Flow Integrity is on by
default blocking most exploit
techniques
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4/11/2006
11/14/2006
1/9/2007
12/9/2008 12/8/2009 1/21/2010 3/30/2010
12/14/2010
2/8/2011
4/12/2011 6/14/2011 6/12/2012 9/21/2012 1/14/2013 3/12/2013 5/14/2013 6/11/2013
7/9/2013
10/8/2013 3/11/2014
5/1/2014
5/13/2014
Count
of
impacted
IE
versions
Zero day exploits impacting latest version of IE
Yes
No
