Microsoft Game Technologies: XNA Security

• tonyvalenti / 100 / Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:39:00 GMT / Comments (2)
• Hi!
  I am a huge fan of the fact that Microsoft is opening up the Xbox to students and novices with the XNA, but a big question i have is how does this impact the security of the 360? Are there countermeasures to prevent people from making a "game" that attacks your network or monitors other games you're playing? How about a 360 virus or 360 spyware? Is there anything in the XNA or the 360 itself that prevents this from happening?
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• 1. Security is extremely important to the XNA team, and they work closely with the Xbox team to ensure full certification and security for the runtime.

     davidweller_msft | Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:44:00 GMT |

  2. Its no surprise to me that XNA is ONLY .Net based. .Net (like Java etc) provides out of the box sandboxing. So in theory the runtime can prevent this kind of operation from happening.

     The .Net runtime has years of testing to ensure that the sandbox is secure - you can never be 100% certain of anything security-weise but it has good pedigree and plenty of testing time even before it got to xbox testing (which I bet is brutal!).

     thezman | Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:45:00 GMT |