Three Minutes With Vista Security Guru Ben Fathi
Microsoft's Ben Fathi has a new job now that Vista has shipped, but the man who led the company's Security Technology Unit is still focused on keeping the bad guys away from your PC. Fathi is now corporate vice president of development with the Windows Core Operating System Division, and is in charge of building the guts of the OS--things like the kernel, networking, and security. IDG News Service sat down with him recently to discuss the future of Windows security. With the first Vista bugs now being reported, Fathi says it looks like Vista is on track to meet his own stated goal of having half the flaws that plagued XP during its first year.
Following is an edited transcript of the interview, conducted this week at the RSA Conference on computing security in San Francisco.
