What? Is Microsoft no longer the laughing stock of Security? (From Slashdot.org):

IT: Microsoft No Longer a ‘Laughingstock’ of Security?

Journal written by Toreo asesino (951231) and posted by Zonk on Friday September 21, @10:51AM
from the set-the-bar-high-guys dept.

Toreo asesino writes “In a Q&A with Scott Charney, the vice president of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft, Charney suggests that security in Microsoft products has moved on from being the ‘laughing stock’ of the IT industry to something more respectable. He largely attributes this to the new Security Development Lifecycle implemented in development practices nearly six years ago. ‘The challenge is really quite often in dealing with unrealistic expectations. We still have vulnerabilities in our code, and we’ll never reduce them to zero. So sometimes we will have a vulnerability and people say to me, “So the [Security Development Lifecycle (SDL)] is a failure right?” No it isn’t. It was our aspirational goal that the SDL will get rid of every bug.’”