{"id":185,"date":"2007-09-21T08:12:22","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T15:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanorser.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2007-09-21T08:12:22","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T15:12:22","slug":"20070921-microsoft-no-longer-a-laughingstock-of-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/21\/20070921-microsoft-no-longer-a-laughingstock-of-security\/","title":{"rendered":"2007\/09\/21 Microsoft No Longer a \u2018Laughingstock\u2019 of Security?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What? Is Microsoft no longer the laughing stock of Security? (From Slashdot.org):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"article\" id=\"art1\">\n<p class=\"generaltitle\">\n<p class=\"title\">\n<h3> \t\t\t<span><a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/\">IT<\/a>:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/it\/07\/09\/21\/1345232.shtml\">Microsoft No Longer a &#8216;Laughingstock&#8217; of Security?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"details\">  \t \t<strong>Journal written by <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/%7EToreo+asesino\/journal\/\">Toreo asesino (951231)<\/a> and posted by  \t<a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/%7EZonk\/\">Zonk<\/a>  \ton Friday September 21, @10:51AM<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>from the <strong>set-the-bar-high-guys<\/strong> dept.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">\n<p class=\"topic\"> \t\t \t\t \t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/search.pl?tid=109\"> \t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/images.slashdot.org\/topics\/topicms.gif\" alt=\"Microsoft\" title=\"Microsoft\" height=\"55\" width=\"75\" \/> \t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\"> \t\t\tToreo asesino writes <em>&#8220;In a Q&amp;A with Scott Charney, the vice president of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft, Charney suggests that security in Microsoft products has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;articleId=9038059&amp;source=rss_news10\">moved on from being the &#8216;laughing stock&#8217; of the IT industry<\/a> to something more respectable. He largely attributes this to the new Security Development Lifecycle implemented in development practices nearly six years ago. &#8216;The challenge is really quite often in dealing with unrealistic expectations. We still have vulnerabilities in our code, and we&#8217;ll never reduce them to zero. So sometimes we will have a vulnerability and people say to me, &#8220;So the [Security Development Lifecycle (SDL)] is a failure right?&#8221; No it isn&#8217;t. It was our aspirational goal that the SDL will get rid of every bug.'&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What? Is Microsoft no longer the laughing stock of Security? (From Slashdot.org): IT: Microsoft No Longer a &#8216;Laughingstock&#8217; 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 &#8220;In a Q&amp;A with Scott Charney, the vice president of Trustworthy Computing at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}