Q&A: Microsoft's new security chief
News That's the role Scott Charney has taken since he started working on security for the US Justice Department in the early 1990s and, most recently, as Microsoft's chief security strategist. CNET News.com recently spoke with Charney.
[August 7, 2002, 10:53]
Microsoft unveils new security initiatives
News Ninety-five percent of attacks happen after a patch for a known software vulnerability has been issued, said Scott Charney, chief trustworthy computing strategist at Microsoft, during a keynote speech at the software maker's TechEd conference in...
[June 4, 2003, 8:28]
Microsoft tests 'Geneva' identity tech in schools
News The software company is working with the Lake Washington School District — comprised of 50 schools and nearly 24,000 students in and around Microsoft's home town of Redmond — to deploy its Geneva claims-based identity platform, said Scott Charney...
[April 22, 2009, 9:20]
SQL Slammer worm wreaks havoc on Internet
News It does not spread through email and will not affect most home users' computers directly, said experts, although PCs that use the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine, such as Visual Studio .Net and Office XP Developer Edition, are also...
[January 26, 2003, 9:58]
Microsoft: Users confused by Vista UAC prompts
News Scott Charney, head of trustworthy computing at Microsoft, admitted this week that Windows Vista's User Account Control prompts are not intuitive and confuse users. In a video interview with ZDNet.com.au at the AusCERT2008 conference this week...
[May 23, 2008, 10:13]
Microsoft exec outlines Windows 7 security
News Scott Charney, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing division, explains at the RSA Conference in San Francisco how it will be safer, easier and faster to sign in remotely to a business network.
[April 23, 2009, 13:12]
Microsoft exec outlines Windows 7 security
Video Scott Charney, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing division, explains at the RSA Conference in San Francisco how it will be safer, easier and faster to sign in remotely to a business network.
[April 23, 2009, 13:09]
Microsoft moves key security into Windows unit
News The software maker said it will merge its security response unit, its Trustworthy Computing effort and an engineering excellence product in one group to be led by Scott Charney. As part of its ongoing reorganisation, Microsoft on Thursday moved...
[October 13, 2006, 8:50]
Programmers should prize security over creativity - report
News The broad swath of initiatives is needed to help companies improve the quality of their software, said Scott Charney, chief security strategist for Microsoft and co-chairman of the Security Across the Software Development Life Cycle Task Force.
[April 2, 2004, 8:35]
One year on, is Microsoft 'Trustworthy'?
News We said that Trustworthy Computing is a 10-year project, sort of like (president) Kennedy sending people to the moon," said Scott Charney, chief security strategist for Microsoft. A year after Bill Gates called for Microsoft to make its products...
[January 17, 2003, 9:08]
US Web snooping plan draws fire
News There are all sorts of legitimate reasons people want to remain anonymous," adds former US Department of Justice computer-crime specialist Scott Charney, now a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is...
[March 29, 2000, 9:12]
'We have a lot more work to do' - Microsoft
News The head of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing initiative, Scott Charney, says the Windows vulnerability on which the MSBlast worm is based is a sign the software heavyweight has "a lot more work to do".
[August 14, 2003, 9:05]
Windows crashes 'not all our fault' - Microsoft
News Scott Charney, chief security strategist at Microsoft, told developers at the TechEd 2003 conference in Brisbane that information collected by Dr Watson, the company's reporting tool, revealed that "half of all crashes in Windows are caused not by...
[August 13, 2003, 12:40]
Microsoft to revamp "broken" patching system
News On 3 June, 2003, Scott Charney, a former Justice Department cybercrime expert and Microsoft's chief security strategist since 1 April, 2002, told the audience at TechEd 2003 in Dallas that he knew Microsoft's patch management "was broken.
[August 20, 2003, 16:15]
Microsoft: Two-factor authentication would thwart phishers
News The software giant's chief security strategist, Scott Charney, said that companies had failed to adopt the technology as fast as he would have liked. We haven't had as much adoption as you would hope for," said Charney.
[November 17, 2004, 12:25]
Aussie govt to see Windows source code
News The open-ended agreement -- announced today by Microsoft's chief security strategist, Scott Charney -- follows more than eight months of negotiations with the federal Defence Signals Directorate, the agency which provides information security...
[August 14, 2003, 10:20]
Security experts look to 'whitelisting' future
News Scott Charney, vice president trustworthy computing group at Microsoft, said "most people who run machines actually don't know what is executing on their machine". Security, says Charney, needs to be built into the "trusted stack" — incorporated...
[May 28, 2008, 10:01]
eBay sends out mixed messages on security
News Microsoft's chief security strategist, Scott Charney, recently said that companies had failed to adopt two-factor authentication as fast as he would have liked. We haven't had as much adoption as you would hope for," said Charney.
[May 4, 2005, 18:00]
Microsoft exec: Google 'years' behind us on privacy
News The specialist security group, headed up by ex-US federal prosecutor, Scott Charney, was established in 2002 as a response to heightened security concerns following the 11 September attacks. Google's approach to privacy is a decade behind Microsoft...
[August 29, 2008, 16:55]
'Zombie attacks': Web crackdown widens
News Scott Charney of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, a former Justice Department cyber-crime expert, said European countries may have to modify their relatively strict guidelines on data privacy protection. This month's rash of "zombie attacks" on popular Web...
[February 21, 2000, 9:06]
