RSSMS Security Manager Joins Vista Team
By Nate Mook | Published September 11, 2006, 4:34 PM
Stephen Toulouse, a program manager for Microsoft's Security Response Center who often served as the public face for the company's security woes on the MSRC blog, is taking a new job with the Windows Vista team. His focus, not surprisingly, will be on operating system security.
Toulouse's says his new role will be more proactive, as opposed to the reactive nature of MSRC, which responds to new security threats with patches and advisories. He will begin with a focus on Vista and continue that work with other Microsoft products.
"Security is to Windows Vista like the Internet was to Windows 95. It’s going kick off a fundamental change in the way people think about security and operating systems. It’s going to be a platform on which a lot of current problems will have new solutions," Toulouse wrote on his Web site.
"And it doesn’t stop there, that level of effort is also a huge part of Office 2007, Longhorn Server, the next version of Exchange, all our various security product offerings, etc etc. That’s a cool thing to be a part of and I look forward to it," he added. "I’ll miss security response, but four years is a long time to carry a pager."
Toulouse says the MSRC has come a long way and will continue its work without him. The group has played a critical role in Microsoft establishing a solid infrastructure to deal with new threats, introducing expanded security bulletins, monthly webcasts and podcasts, technical articles, as well as worldwide presentations on security.
"We continue to have success in emergency response too, from the huge suite of deployment tools to make sure that customers can get updates on systems more quickly, to working to help contain threats through industry partnerships, and bringing criminals who write malicious attacks to justice," said Toulouse.
"We've come a long long way since that morning in January of 2003 when I found out about Slammer from my car radio."
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Maybe this guy will be a Social Studies
teacher at Microsoft High School in Philadelphia.
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The Computer Rodent
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wow, two trolls in one article.
The next one posted you should try for 3.
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"Stephen Toulouse,
a program manager
for Microsoft's
Security Response
Center who often
served as the
public face for
the company's
security woes..."
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This ain't good when Microsoft adds a public
relations apologist to it's Vista team.
A tacit admission that WinVista shall have huge
and on-going security problems ?
Get damage control in gear, now ?
But we can't be too hard on Microsoft. Afterall,
they've ~only~ had 5-years+ to get Vista right.
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The Computer Rodent
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Vista is the latest OS from Microsoft.
After reading the article it did not suggest anything ANALaly retentive or negative as your post suggested.
When you "Finnished" your term with MS, did you find it hard to take on the bitter, twisted, form you take now easy? or have you allways been such a sad, depressed negative loser posting such drivel in this self importance style you like to use?
If you dont like vista, dont use it.
If you dont like Microsoft, or the nasty people who said goodbye to you, then get over it. The more i read this drivel from you the more I think that you are a skidmark on the underpants cast out after a weeks continous use.
ahhhh I feel much better now :-)
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