Table of Contents
- Executive summary
- In a nutshell
- The Ovum view
- Key messages
- Internet threats jeopardise the Microsoft brand
- The IT security industry depends on Microsoft
- A mainstream security vendor
- Emerging from its proprietary cocoon
- Security delivery is disjointed
- The security sector faces market disruption
- A holistic view of security
- Microsoft' s response to security threats
- The overall security strategy
- Delivering secure products
- ' Defense in Depth'
- Law enforcement
- Delivering security products
- The burden of leadership
- Dominance brings de facto obligations
- Keeping abreast of the attackers
- Working with national security agencies
- Protecting critical national infrastructure
- Treading the fine line around monopolistic practices
- Security, identity, access and privacy
- Recognising the synergies
- Security
- Identity
- The purpose of the ' Laws of Identity'
- Claims-based identity and access control
- Legal liability
- Privacy
- Collaboration with other vendors
- Microsoft collaborates at the process level
- SafeCode
- ICASI
- MSRC
- Exploitability Index
- MAPP
- Gathering security information
- Product partnerships
- Open source projects in identity interoperability
- From Trustworthy Computing to security vendor
- The role of Trustworthy Computing in Microsoft
- Patching and vulnerability remediation
- Patching is here to stay
- Establishing order out of patching chaos
- Deploying patches
- Applications are becoming more vulnerable than the operating system
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Additional 64-bit protection
- Windows 7
- Identity and access product strategy
- Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010
- Microsoft Identity Integration Server
- Intelligent Application Gateway
- Extending Active Directory Federation Services
- The identity meta-system
- Federated identity
- Extending identity federation to B2C environments
- CardSpace
- Corporate identity
- OpenID
- Security products
- Forefront
- Forefront Protection Manager
- Free software
- Microsoft Security Essentials
List of Figures
- Figure 1: Computers cleaned per 1,000 examined in 2H08, for each
operating system
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