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This week, Microsoft Trustworthy Computing marked its 10 year milestone and several news stories focused on learning lessons and contributions to security. Elinor Mills’ CNET article captured the sentiment: “Microsoft security--you've come a long way, baby.” A Threat Post article, Ten Years After Gates's Memo, Effects Still Being Felt, noted that the Bill Gates’ memo launched the initiative back in 2002 and “was not just a directive for Microsoft developers, but a call to arms for the rest of the industry, as well.” ComputerWeekly.com, Microsoft aims to raise the security bar in 2012, wrote about the TwC Next initiative and the future with more news to come at RSA 2012 end of February, in San Francisco. We’ve seen significant security and privacy contributions to the IT ecosystem over the past 10 years that have led to industry change and we are naturally excited about the future!

Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Turns 10 

• Microsoft security--you've come a long way, baby – CNET
• Microsoft aims to raise the security bar in 2012 – ComputerWeekly.com
• Ten Years After Gates's Memo, Effects Still Being Felt – Threat Post
• Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Turns 10: What's Next – InformationWeek
  

Security Research & Intelligence

• Microsoft to Launch Real-Time Threat Intelligence Feed – CIO
• How To Prevent An Illicit Data Dump – Dark Reading
• Do You Know Your Cyberthreats? – Network World
• PalmSecure turns your blood flow into key for your laptop – CNET

Cyber Threat

• Banks Unite to Battle Online Theft – The Wall Street Journal
• World Economic Forum Sees Dark Side To Connectivity – Threat Post
• Feds Prompted to Aid Private-Sector Cybersecurity – Bank Info Security
• DNSSEC Adoption Needs to Grow to Secure Core Internet, Protocols - eWeek

Government, Legislation & Policy

• Military Networks ‘Not Defensible,’ Says General Who Defends Them – Wired
• Malicious Software Attacks Security Cards Used by Pentagon – The New York Times
• Feds Seek Stronger Security For Power Grid – InformationWeek
• Hackers expose defence and intelligence officials in US and UK – The Guardian
  

Blog Picks

• Security Shouldn't Be an Afterthought – The Public Eye with Eric Chabrow
•  2012 is the year of the password – Darragh Delaney, User and Network Forensics, Computerworld
• On Defending Networks – Gabriel Bassett, Infosec Island
  

Microsoft Research, Papers and Media

• Cybersecurity/Internet Health
  • Rethinking the Cyber Threat (paper)
  • Collective Defense: Applying Public Health Models to the Internet (paper)
  • Video: Collective Defense: Enabling Healthy Devices (video)
• Security Intelligence
  • Lessons from Least Malware Infected Countries (series)
  • Battling the ZBot Threat (paper)
• Trustworthy Computing
  • Imagine Video: Microsoft Trustworthy Computing (video)
• Cybersecurity/Trusted Supply Chain:
  • Supply Chain Risk Management keynote at the East-West Institute’s Second Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit (video)
  • Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management: Toward a Global Vision of Transparency and Trust (paper)
  • Toward a Trusted Supply Chain: A Risk Based Approach To Managing Software Integrity (paper)