As part of their keynote address at RSA Bill Gates and and Microsoft and Chief Strategy and Research Officer Craig Mundie talked about Microsoft’s view of the security world which is basically separated into three distinct technology areas:

Evolution of networks. As businesses and the industry move forward on redefining network boundaries, policy will become the driving force for managing access — not the physical topology of the network. The goal is for the network and the Internet to appear and work as if the boundaries between them are seamless, so access for users is easier and faster.

Evolution of protection. To achieve this anywhere access vision, customers need comprehensive security products and services that integrate seamlessly with each other and existing infrastructure and that are easy to use and manage. There is a necessity for the industry to enable greater protection, not only when information is in transit but also when it is created and where it resides, whether on the server, the desktop or a mobile device.

Evolution of identity. Today, individuals and businesses struggle with an increasing number of digital identities to manage and the increased level of complexity and risk that goes with them. The industry’s collaborative efforts around the development of an identity metasystem are the right direction, and customers need this system to be based on standard protocols that address heterogeneous infrastructures in order to reduce the complexity of managing identities across networks and the Web.

Microsoft also announced that they’ll collaborate with the OpenID 2.0 specification. (One of my predictions for 2007 was that OpenID will take off.)

On-demand video of the keynote can be found here:
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