In 2012, an industry wide coalition of hardware and software makers adopted Secure Boot to protect against a long looming security threat. The threat was the specter of malware that could infect the BIOS, the firmware that loaded the operating system each time a computer booted up. From there, it could remain immune to detection and removal and could load even before the OS and security apps did. The threat of such BIOS dwelling malware was largely theoretical and fueled in large part by the
