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C O N T E N T S:

• Executive Summary [Free]
• Introduction [Free sample chapter]
• Secure by Design
• Overview: Making products secure by design requires keeping security in mind through all phases of development
• Secure by Default
• Overview: Making products secure by default requires installing only the features users really need and installing them with the safest possible configuration
• Secure by Deployment
• Overview: The lack of tools to determine the security state of computers and bring them up to date with necessary patches is hurting Microsoft’s secure by deployment efforts
• Security Communications
• Overview: Helping customers learn about vulnerabilities and patches, and how to use products securely, requires open and complete communications
• Reliability
• Overview: If users are to rely on computers in the same way that they rely on phones, then computers must be more dependable and available
• Privacy
• Overview: As it did initially with security, Microsoft is using its framework to drive improvements for the privacy pillar of its Trustworthy Computing initiative
• Business Integrity
• Overview: As part of its commitment to corporate responsibility and to enhance the perception of its business integrity, Microsoft must ensure that all employees comply with its standards of business conduct
• Conclusion
• Overview: Future Trustworthy Computing advances will require ever-greater levels of consistency and coordination across historically autonomous product divisions
• Appendix A: Next-Generation Secure Computing Base
• Overview: Microsoft’s Next-Generation Secure Computing Base is new security technology that is the cornerstone of its long-term plans to better secure the PC
• Appendix B: Trustworthy Computing Glossary
• Overview: A glossary describes the unique vocabulary of Trustworthy Computing
• Appendix C: Resources
• Overview: A listing of useful links for additional information on Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing initiative