Nearly one year later for Trustworthy Computing
ENT News | at | by Mike
Long-time Microsoft security-watcher Russ Cooper says that the software giant must do more to enhance the security of its products. Microsoft Corp. closed the book on a tumultuous 2002 in which it sent most of its developers back to school for a month-long crash course in "Secure by Design" programming. The effort was part of Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative, which amounted to a public relations mea culpa in which the software giant pledged to start taking the security of its products more seriously.
As a result of the Secure by Design refresher course, during which time development on the software giant's forthcoming Windows Server 2003 all but ground to a halt, Microsoft says that Windows developers received security and trust training, and new code testing processes were put in place.