Effective security isn't easy and building it into key systems and software takes time--more time than many businesses can afford to wait. Two years ago, Cisco Systems and Microsoft promised to work together on a better way to protect networks and computers from growing security threats. The vendors last week revealed the first details of how they plan to accomplish that goal by the time they finish rolling out the necessary technology in the latter half of next year.

At InformationWeek.

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