Do you think Microsoft Security is improving? As frustrating as it is to be a Microsoft customer and have to deal with this never-ending onslaught of patches (which often break your systems), the true enemy is not Microsoft, but the attachers. Microsoft is showing increasing flexibility in how it deals with the never-ending onslaught of vulnerability discoveries. A week ago, it said it would host a library of transcripts for its monthly open-to-the-public Web conference calls about Patch Tuesday. Today it says it will give select Windows security vendors more time to write attach blocking code as part of its monthly patch cycle. (IBM, Juniper Networks, and Tipping Point are on board already.)
Interested? Check out the blog by Microsoft Systems Center guru -- Kerrie Meyler: Managing Microsoft
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Microsoft Security
MS security has improved a lot over the years. Still not perfect, but they are getting there. Since Win2008 I have less problems than with 2000/2003.
Still, I think MS should forget about certain backward compatibility and start new from scratch. Like Apple did with OSX.
Yes, there will be still patches and what not, but a OS from design more secure would help to prevent certain leaks.
But they're leaving SNORT out in the cold
? Then what's the point? It must be the most widely deployed IDS in existance.
Yes and maybe..
Yes - the products get more resilient against security problems but.. The problem with MS as many other corporations is that security is not a product or technology - it is a concept. No matter how "secure" a product or technology is, there always will be ways to go around it.
I have seen some (very weak still) signs that MS has started thinking the security outside of the products, they have to! Like it or not, MS is a big player in IT field and they should lead instead of reacting to some security or whatever problems, they have the resources and a lot of bright people who could do that.
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