By Ric Steinberger, CISSP, CISM

The new year has brought security professionals a mixed blessing: the first new operating system from Microsoft in over half a decade. There’s one thing we can be sure of: Over the next few years, thousands of articles will be published on the general topic of “Securing Vista”. This in spite of the fact that Microsoft has issued countless assurances that Vista is their most secure operating system to date (as if that is supposed to allow us to issue a sigh of relief).

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