Microsoft mends security ties
eWeek | at | by Mike
That's the only way to describe the party that Microsoft threw here Thursday night at the close of the Black Hat Briefings. The gathering was billed as a thank-you for all of the people who have helped the software giant improve the security of its products over the years. Given that agenda, one would have reasonably expected to see a crowd of current and former Microsoft employees with a few outside experts thrown in for good measure.
To call Microsoft's relationship with the security community strained would have been a vast understatement in years past. But, the combination of the company's massive internal effort to improve the security of its software and the outreach and communications work done by the Microsoft Security Response Center has apparently thawed relations between the two sides considerably.