Introducing the New End to End Trust Microsoft Site

This April marks two years since the initial introduction of Microsoft’s End to End Trust vision, an expansion of the company’s Trustworthy Computing strategy to the Internet. Just ahead of the 2010 RSA Security Conference, the Redmond company launched a new resource designed to enable an insight into the work poured into making the web safer and more trusted. The software giant’s new End to End Trust website is currently live, offering information on the company’s vision, on the community that has joined forces with Microsoft and details from the RSA Conference.

“On Friday, the team at Microsoft that’s driving our End to End Trust initiative launched a new web site that provides an update on the End to End Trust vision for a more trustworthy and accountable Internet. The site’s launch was timed to precede Scott Charney’s keynote next Tuesday at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco. The site will be updated later that day with a video of Scott’s keynote,” Steve Lipner, Sr. director of Security Engineering Strategy, revealed.

There are no less than three tiers that can contribute to the End to End Trust, according to Microsoft, namely security and privacy fundamentals, technology innovations and social, economic, political, and IT alignment. In this regard, the company underlines that cross-industry collaboration and alignment is a key aspect of ensuring that the End to End Trust vision will come to life.

“One of the key components of the End to End Trust vision is what we refer to as ‘Security and Privacy Fundamentals’ – the recognition that better authentication and accountability are only effective if the underlying computer systems are built to resist attack and the intrusion of unwanted software. At Microsoft, the way we build systems to resist attack is by implementing the SDL for any products or online services that expose our users to risk. The End to End Trust site includes several videos about the SDL and its role in End to End Trust, as well as links to details posted on the SDL web site,” Lipner added.