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December 14, 2006
Microsoft Windows Vista & Security!
No doubt many of us would refrain from using the words Microsoft and Security in the same sentence and with that said I see no real need to go down memory lane.
Microsoft's new operating system Windows Vista that launches to the general public January 30th 2007 is by far the most secure operating system to come out of Redmond thus far.
Roger Grimes together with Jensen Johansson are putting together a new book entitled have Windows Vista Security. Roger has posted a run down of the most significant features over at Infoworld with the final list going past 180.
Will Vista be hacked? Sure, anything super-popular gets hacked. IE 7 is the most likely target, of course, followed by Windows Mail (the Outlook Express replacement), because these applications have the highest visibility and hacker interest.
...I will go out on a limb and say that I believe Windows Vista, and the forthcoming Longhorn server, will be tough to hack. Outside of client-side attacks and Internet Explorer, the fully-patched Windows XP Pro SP2 is already pretty hard to hack externally. Vista will never be as secure as OpenBSD, but I believe it will be secure enough to ensure that Microsoft becomes known as a vendor of choice for a secure operating system. And that’s a far cry from where it was five years ago.
Posted by Stephen at December 14, 2006 11:38 PM
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