ASUS pitches dual BIOS on ExpertBook A7 for SMB firmware recovery
Original title: Dual BIOS: The laptop security feature SMBs don’t know they need
A second firmware chip can boot the laptop if the primary BIOS fails checks or an update is interrupted.
A CSO Online feature argues small and midsize businesses should require dual-BIOS laptops because firmware malware can load before the operating system and a failed BIOS check can leave a machine unable to boot. It cites NIST’s protect, detect and recover goals and a Verizon Business 2026 study that found SMB losses of up to 7% of revenue. The promoted product is the ASUS ExpertBook A7, which the article says fails over automatically and logs the event.
Unconfirmed: The piece is vendor-oriented marketing and does not document a specific firmware campaign or flaw.
- The Verizon study is cited for losses of up to 7% of SMB revenue.
- Dual BIOS stores a protected second firmware copy for automatic failover.
- ExpertBook A7 records integrity failures in the BIOS System Event Log.
- An interrupted firmware update can brick a laptop the same way a failed attack can.
- Vendors
- ASUS
- Products
- ExpertBook A7
- Organizations
- NISTVerizon Business
From the original article
3 min read at csoonline.com
Every security checklist starts with the basics: strong passwords, multifactor authentication, spotting phishing, and keeping software up to date. All four protect what happens after a laptop starts. But some attackers are more focused on what happens before.
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