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While the computing industry has been working to tighten up the security of its products amid increasing threats from viruses and hackers, a truly trustworthy infrastructure is still a few years off, Hewlett-Packard’s security head said in an interview this week.
“The old architecture is too open for today’s open world. We need the hardware, operating systems, and applications to all be tightened up and work together to give us true trustworthy computing,” said Tony Redmond, vice president and chief technology officer of HP Services and the HP Security Program Office, during an interview in London Monday.

But it will take time, not just due to the amount of cooperation it requires of the vendors, but also because the average three-year corporate buying cycle delays adoption of new products into the market, Redmond said.

There’s at least one security product that HP hopes will immediately grab customers’ attention, however — its much talked about Virus Throttler technology, which is designed to slow the propagation of viruses or worms by limiting the number of network destinations that an infected server can attempt to reach. While it doesn’t completely stop the attack, it gives administrators time to identify and address the problem.

HP said late last year that the technology would be introduced in early 2005, but Redmond zoomed in on a launch date, saying that it would be available around the time of the RSA security conference, taking place in San Francisco Feb. 14 -18.

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