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White Hat: Vista Gets High Marks For Security
Thursday, August 10th, 2006
The Windows operating system always has been notorious for its security flaws. This has been 
partly because its ubiquity makes it the most widespread target for hackers and thieves, but it’s also because Microsoft’s security efforts have often been clumsy or incomplete.
But with Vista, the much-ballyhooed (and delayed) version of Windows, the company seems to finally be on the right track. Dan Kaminsky, senior researcher at DoxPara Research, says that after eight months of kicking Vista’s security tires, he’s convinced that Microsoft has learned from its mistakes.
"Vista’s security is at a level I didn’t think was possible at such a large software development house," he says. "They just get it."
Microsoft enlisted Kaminsky and other "white hat" researchers to help it uncover flaws and vulnerabilities in Vista, which will likely be attacked at least as relentlessly as past versions of Windows from the moment it’s released.
The project instilled such confidence in the OS among Microsoft officials that at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas last week, the company invited about 3,000 security professionals to try and poke holes in the system. White Hat: Vista Gets High Marks For Security - VARBusiness
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