I have actually been impressed with the ground Microsoft has gained in the
security front.  They took a beating in the market on security and did
something about it.  Now they are preaching and teaching their SDL.
http://www.microsoft.com/security/sdl/

<http://www.microsoft.com/security/sdl/>-Jeff Steward

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Steven Peck <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am pretty sure every person who wants to tear Microsoft down watches
> Microsoft pretty closely.  They then race to blog about it, brag or exploit
> it.
>
> That gut level anti-Microsoft view by so many (many who have their jobs
> supporting these products) who persist in this belief leave me in the "as
> long as it performs the function I need it to perform" I will use it camp
> and I will trust that the existing competition will keep them playing.
>
> Steven
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Not trying to be terribly anal here, but there are a few things I don't
>> > trust to free products, and this is at the top of the list.
>>
>>   MSE isn't "free"; it's paid for with your Windows license fee.
>>
>>  I tend to avoid Microsoft's security products simply because of
>> defense-in-depth.  It's a "Who watches the watchmen?" thing.  We're
>> talking about having a  Microsoft product watch for security issues in
>> Microsoft products.  I think it's more likely for a third-party
>> product to spot things, simply because of the different point-of-view.
>>  This reasoning doesn't apply to everything (known-bad signature-based
>> detection, for example), but for things like heuristics and rule-based
>> detection, I'd expect Microsoft's own people to be more susceptible to
>> Microsoft's systemic blindspots.
>>
>> -- Ben
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