Vista Stakes Its Future on Security

Microsoft is taking many steps to ensure that Vista is its most secure OS to date.  One of the keys to making Vista's networking more secure is with IPSec.  IPSec has been traditionally used in VPNs, but :

One focus of those presentations will be IPSec, a venerable protocol used for securing message data at the network layer as well as for authenticating the source of data packets sent over networks.

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Enterprises have historically used IPSec for VPN sessions that connect remote users to corporate resources. But Microsoft has rebuilt its TCP/IP stack "brick by brick" in Vista and Longhorn and hopes to "paint IPSec with a different brush," said Ian Hameroff, product manager for Windows server core networking at Microsoft.

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