Optimism: The Future of Windows Security
By Daniel Miessler on September 29th, 2005: Tagged as Security | Windows
I have to say, Microsoft makes me very angry on a fairly regular basis, but I am once again becoming optimistic about their future offerings.
I’ve said this many times in the past and been horribly dissapointed (and made fun of), but I think this time may be different. I’m guided by a single thought — “How long can a company with billions of dollars who is serious about security continue to fail at it on a massive scale?”
I think the answer has to be, “Not much longer.” I truly believe that all the problems we’ve seen from Microsoft over the years have been a result of them, 1) not being serious about security, and 2) dealing with the massive deployed codebase once they did get serious.
I truly won’t care if Microsoft does get their stuff together when it comes to security. It’ll be one less source of comic relief, but it’ll be better for the world.
Here’s to hoping.