Microsoft Plans Security Alliance
July 18, 2005
Microsoft Plans Security Alliance
Article Summary:
"Microsoft is pilot-testing a security alliance program for partners and will require industry-standard security certifications going forward. Informally dubbed the Partner Security Support Alliance, the program is targeted at OEM's and partners that have earned Microsoft's security solutions competency and is designed to cut customers support costs and improve partner responsiveness to potential threats, said sources familiar with the plans."
Productive Quote:
"One security solution provider applauded Microsoft's efforts. 'This [program] is currently not of interest to us but may be one to watch as Microsoft starts to define itself in the security market as a company that prevents threats instead of one that creates them,' said Todd O'Bert, president of Productive Online, Minneapolis."