A Microsoft está planejando incluir recursos avançados de segurança no Windows Vista, mesmo que seja apenas uma parte da idéia original de três anos atrás, quando a Microsoft revelou o Palladium, renomeado para Next-Generation Secure Computing Base(NGSCB).
A Microsoft está conversando com fabricantes de hardware e software sobre a Inicialização Segura do Windows Vista, que será o primeiro passo da computação segura.
O Vista, sucessor do Windows XP, impedirá o roubo de dados em laptops e outros computadores através do acesso físico. Quase 50% das empresas tiveram laptops roubados, causando um prejuízo de US$ 4.1 milhões, de acordo com uma pesquisa feita pelo FBI.
Microsoft is talking up support for hardware-based security in Windows Vista, though only a sliver of the company's original plan will make it into the operating system. Three years ago Microsoft unveiled Palladium, renamed Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) after the original name became tainted with controversy over privacy and fair-use issues and because another company claimed rights to the Palladium name. The technology was to be part of the next Windows release.
Now Microsoft is busy telling hardware and software makers about Secure Startup in Windows Vista, which it says is the "first delivery" on its hardware-based security plan. Vista, previously known by its code name, Longhorn, is the next client release of Windows due on store shelves in time for the next year's holiday shopping season. Secure Startup is primarily designed to prevent laptop thieves and other unauthorized users with physical access to a computer from getting access to the data on the system. Nearly half of all enterprises had laptops stolen, causing $4.1 million in damage, according to a January survey by the Computer Security Institute and the FBI.
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