Will Longhorn Boost Computer Security?

“While the computing industry has been working to tighten up the security of its products amid increasing threats from viruses and hackers, a truly trustworthy infrastructure is still a few years off, Hewlett-Packard’s security head said in an interview this week

The old architecture is too open for today’s open world. We need the hardware, operating systems, and applications to all be tightened up and work together to give us true trustworthy computing,” says Tony Redmond, vice president and chief technology officer of HP Services and the HP Security Program Office.

But it will take time, not just due to the amount of cooperation it requires of the vendors, but also because the average three-year corporate buying cycle delays adoption of new products into the market, Redmond says.”