One year after embarking on an ambitious plan to improve the security of its products, Microsoft Corp. is moving into the second phase of its Trustworthy Computing initiative and crafting several new projects to help secure applications all the way from the development process through customer deployment. Among the efforts is a set of guidelines the company's Security Business Unit is developing for Windows 2000. Known as Prescriptive Architectural Guidance, the document will lay out instructions for ways IT managers can lock down Windows 2000 machines.
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