Vista SP1 Security

psychokilla · Aug 29, 2007

From the white paper released by MS :

Security

Security improvements that will be in Windows Vista SP1 include:

* Provides security software vendors a more secure way to communicate with Windows Security Center.
* Includes application programming interfaces (APIs) by which third-party security and malicious software detection applications can work with kernel patch protection on x64 versions of Windows Vista. These APIs help ISVs develop software that extends the functionality of the Windows kernel on x64 computers without disabling or weakening the protection offered by kernel patch protection.
* Improves the security of running RemoteApp programs and desktops by allowing Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) files to be signed. Customers can differentiate user experiences based on publisher identity.
* Adds an Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC) pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) to the list of available PRNGs in Windows Vista.
* Enhances BitLocker Drive Encryption (BDE) to offer an additional multifactor authentication method that combines a key protected by the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) with a Startup key stored on a USB storage device and a user-generated personal identification number (PIN).
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Does anyone know yet if the security center will finally look more like the one in XP SP2. Will the firewall be able to report the status of more than Windows embedded firewall as limiting this to the Windows firewall seems to smack of more antitrust law suits.

The Hammer · Aug 29, 2007

SP1 will not be out until the first quarter of 2008. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070829.wgtvista0830/BNStory/Technology/home

psychokilla · Aug 30, 2007

I know this, that's not what I asked. I'm going to be testing SP1 starting in a couple of weeks and I wanted to know if anyone had seen anything about the Security Center.

The Hammer · Aug 30, 2007

psychokilla said:

I'm going to be testing SP1 starting in a couple of weeks
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I didn't know this. It should have been included in your original post If I had known, I wouldn't have bothered posting. I guess you'll know in a couple of weeks.

maddawgz · Aug 30, 2007

Vista's crapola needs service pack 50, better yet jump it wait for vienna... lol...

ronjor · Aug 30, 2007

McAfee Lauds Microsoft's Vista SP1 Security Overhaul

Back in the fall of 2006, McAfee, Symantec and Check Point fumed as Microsoft Vista's Security Center hid their products where only sophisticated and dedicated customers could dig them out.

Not only that, Microsoft in effect hid its x64 kernel as well, putting it beyond the reach of advanced security products.

The issue was twofold: First, security vendors contended, there wasn't good communication between Vista interfaces and their existing security products, and second, security products couldn't effectively interface with the Vista kernel.

Microsoft listened
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