Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating a secure environment and acceleration of software applications according to one embodiment of the invention. A method of embodiments of the invention includes initiating a software application session at a computing device. The software application session includes an anti-virus/anti-malware software-based scanning session, and the scanning session includes scanning of a plurality of locations of a storage subsystem of the computing device. The method may further include accelerating the initiated session by performing session tasks relating to the initiated session without having to rely on an operating system of the computing device.