Microsoft: Internet, PCs need new security model
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Scott Charney admits it. His friends laughed because he used the words "Microsoft" and "security" in the same sentence back when he joined the software giant in 2002.
But with Microsoft's big push into what it calls end-to-end trust, it's time for the laughter to stop, says its chief security strategist, more formally known as corporate vice president for trustworthy computing.
During a keynote presentation here at the RSA Conference, Charney touted Microsoft's progress with ways of ensuring that applications and other executables are legitimate, like identity systems, code signing, and Trusted Platform Modules -- microcontrollers, often based on a PC's motherboard, that store digital certificates, keys and passwords.