Everyone knows that one of the primary reasons Windows Vista is a compelling upgrade for many organizations is it’s focus on security. Here’s an interesting article by Robert McMillian at Infoworld about how the National Security Agency provided guidance in the creation of Windows Vista to ensure that it was more secure:
NSA helped Microsoft make Vista secure
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/10/HNnsamadevistasecure_1.html
And despite all the hullabaloo about certain security firms complaining that they "didn’t have access to Windows Vista’s kernel" and thus couldn’t do a good job in providing security solutions (Note: Kaspersky & CA were two companies stating that no such access should be necessary to provide good security for an operating system and that providing open programmatic access to the kernel would actually harm the security of the OS by ultimately enabling "black hat" hackers to follow the same paths as these supposed security "white hat" software developers.) everyone seems to have settled their differences and come together to commit to making Windows Vista the most secure operating system it can be:
Security Firms Commit to Vista
http://www.betanews.com/article/Security_Firms_Commit_to_Vista/1169056057
In fact, Businessweek also wrote up an article about the strengthening & out-of-the-box hardening of Windows Vista’s defenses in a recent article entitled "Burglar-Proof Windows? Vista’s new security features may be annoying, but they’re good for you". In fact, the author even goes so far as to explain how we came to arrive at the point we’re at today with multi-attack vector prone Windows XP and security software from every Tom, Dick, and Harry to protect users.
Burglar-Proof Windows?
Vista’s new security features may be annoying, but they’re good for you
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2007/tc20070111_523048.htm?sub=techmaven
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