By Adrienne Hall, General Manager, Trustworthy Computing
Since Microsoft’s founding nearly four decades ago, computing and technology have experienced some momentous shifts with regard to trust. The emergence of security concerns related to the internet was one such shift. It prompted Bill Gates to launch Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing (TwC) initiative in 2002, in a memo calling for changes to ensure customer trust at every level.
We are currently in the midst of another seismic shift with regard to trust — the vigorous global discussion that began last year with disclosures of widespread government surveillance programs.
Today at the RSA Security Conference USA in San Francisco, Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President, Trustworthy Computing, gave a keynote speech about the changing cybersecurity landscape: Conundrums in Cyberspace—Exploiting security in the name of, well, security. See more >>
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