Microsoft making security inroads
eWeek | at | by Mike
When Microsoft Corp. is faced with a hard problem, it can call on Microsoft Research to help furnish answers. Security remains a hard problem, and Microsoft Research is providing some core technologies to help deliver Microsoft's answer to the issue. In reference to finding answers to the problems around securing the online environment and data overall, Scott Charney, Microsoft's chief trustworthy computing strategist, said, "[Microsoft Research has] a huge role to play."
In an interview with eWEEK at the Microsoft TechEd conference here, Charney said Microsoft Research provided some of the tools the company uses to check the security of code. "And we're working with them on longer-term research . like core things about how the [software] stack works," he said, adding that Microsoft Research also has done some work in the identification space.