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In this first installment of an exclusive two-part article, industry icon Mark Minasi shares some pearls of wisdom regarding corporate security.
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NEWS
MS to grade employees on trustworthy adherence (CNET)
Here's another child of Trustworthy Computing: the Privacy Health Index. It's a way for Microsoft to measure how well its employees are holding up the Trustworthy Computing promise and guarding your information. The Privacy Health Index will have employees answer questions about how they're doing their jobs -- they'll then be graded on a scale from 0.0 to 1.0.
NEWS
Microsoft clarifies pay-per-security comments (IDG News)
Microsoft has been on heavy damage control after Craig Mundie's comments this week at the RSA Conference in Paris that Microsoft may begin charging for additional security in its software. Microsoft said this won't be true and said Mundie was referring to the possibility that Microsoft may some day offer separate security products from its core products.
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THE MISSING LINK
Livin' on the ledge: Tech firm calls N.Y. billboard home
A California-based company is on the cutting ledge of Web conferencing technology. Yes, ledge. PlaceWare Inc. has placed a few employees in a highly visible "office" -- along the ledge of a billboard that overlooks New York's Times Square. A publicity stunt? Of course. Will it make you look? Oh, yeah.
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