Microsoft Windows Vista Security Advancements

Microsoft Windows Vista Security Advancements
Microsoft has produced a white paper and on-demand video detailing the security advancements made in Windows Vista.
Updated: July 2006

Windows Vista brings a new level of confidence to computing through improved security, reliability and management. Building on these advances, Microsoft and the rest of the technology industry can work to make computing even more reliable and secure by doing the following:

• Building a trust ecosystem in which people, organizations, device-makers and code authors can be properly identified and held accountable for their actions, while still protecting the privacy of end users.

• Engineering for security by establishing, publishing and sharing best practices, security diagnostic tools and security-specific testing methods.

• Simplifying security for consumers and IT professionals, through a combination of industry standards, common development tools, and unified practices across platforms, products and services.

• Delivering a fundamentally secure platform that includes protection technologies that enable isolation, trust-based multifactor authentication, policy-based access control and unified audit across applications.


These principles are reflected in the design and development of Windows Vista, which embraces a holistic approach to security that makes it a significant milestone along the path to achieving Microsoft’s vision of Trustworthy Computing.