Filed under: Security
Author: Venkat Madipadaga, Chief Architect – SIDGS
It’s already that time where we are getting close to see another version of Windows operating system. It feels like we got there pretty soon this time, as many organizations are still at XP and some using Vista, some more in the process of migration to Vista accross the enterprise or small groups within the enterprise for various reasons. So, as always it’s going to be a challenge for the organizations to migrate to Win 7 from whatever Win release they are on currently. But, it’s even bigger challenge for the entities who are dealing with IT security. Some of them would be IT enterprise security groups within the organizations, secuirty & anti-virus software vendors etc. Most of the security software vendors collaborate with Microsoft during development of Win 7 to design their security products to be suitable for the new variations and features of the OS. In security software’s perspective most concerend areas with this new release of OS are Networking features, Caching mechanisms, Internet Browsers, Kernel & Registry. This translates to various efforts for enterprises that use Win 7 & software vendors that create security products. For organizations who use Win 7, it means new/modfied/enhanced security policies, and for security product vendors, it is significant changes/updates/enhancements to the security products (e.g. anti-virus) and lotz and lotz of teting testing & testing (Q & Q).
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