Microsoft: Security requires teamwork
At the RSA Conference Europe 2004 in Barcelona, Microsoft gave an upbeat assessment of its campaign to improve security.
Rich Kaplan, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Security Business & Technology Unit, said on Thursday that the company remains focused on "evolving security challenges" and committed to working with other IT vendors to further its Trustworthy Computing initiative.
Kaplan indicated that a beta version of a service pack update for Microsoft's Windows Rights Management Services security package is close to arrival, along with its Security Bulletin Advanced Notification program. The executive also said Microsoft will launch its Internet Security and Acceleration Server partner validation program in the near future.
"Customers worldwide, both at home and at work, have told us that they need help minimizing the risk of malicious threats, and we believe this calls for the global IT community to band together to address these needs," Kaplan said at the conference, according to a statement issued by the company.
