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Sophos: Microsoft Doesnt Need to Open Up PatchGuard
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
In an interview with BetaNews on Friday afternoon, Sophos senior security analyst Ron O’Brien 
suggested that, even though his company plans to participate with Microsoft’s program to build a security services API for Windows Vista SP1 — and perhaps because of that fact — Microsoft does not need to create a bypass mechanism for its upcoming PatchGuard kernel lockdown service, as other vendors have recently insisted.
"Two of our largest competitors, McAfee and Symantec - which clearly have anti-virus products that compare to Sophos - have publicly complained that being locked out of the Vista kernel somehow prevents them from being able to innovate," O’Brien noted.
"I would say that the opposite is really true: that by not focusing on having Microsoft provide us with the means to access the kernel, and in fact using the APIs that have [already] been provided by Microsoft, we are not experiencing any problems with PatchGuard for our latest HIPS technology, Sophos Anti-Virus, or any of the other aspects of our security offering for either 32-bit or 64-bit versions of Windows Vista." BetaNews | Sophos: Microsoft Doesn’t Need to Open Up PatchGuard
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