In their quest to rise the level of Windows Vista's security to standards unmatched by any of its predecessors, Microsoft is willing to take certain leaps of faith as the security of their product is concerned. The sixth annual Hack in the Box conference in Kuala Lumpur will be the stage on which Vista's security inner workings will be on display in the proverbial lion's den. Presenting the new operating system's security details to a hacker community is not a new idea for Microsoft, as the Redmond Company has already announced that Vista will be the star of the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas. The initiative aims at harvesting underground resources in order to identify and exclude possible vulnerabilities in Vista before it hits the consumers.

"Companies know that fixing vulnerabilities in already-released products is always going to be much more expensive than finding and squashing them during the development stage," said Dhillon Andrew Kannabhiran, organizer of the sixth annual Hack In The Box deep knowledge security conference set for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in September. "At the end of the day, it also doesn't help an organization's image when critical bugs are found which could have been trivially fixed from the start."

Dave Tamasi, a lead security program manager and Douglas MacIver, a penetration engineer will be the duo encharged of presenting Vista's security features and an analysis of potential penetration attempts.