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Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Improving Security: Ongoing Efforts to Help Customers Through Guidance and Training

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Overview Security is the number one priority today at Microsoft. Microsoft is investing heavily to improve IT security in several ways: by streamlining and enhancing the patching experience, by providing useful guidance and training, by delivering innovative safety technologies to protect without patching, and by stepping up their mission to improve product quality. The presenter of this webcast provides details about what Microsoft is doing to improve IT security - and how it can help to improve security in the organization.

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Publisher	Microsoft
Live Date	17th November 2003 00:00 GMT
Format	Webcast
Topics	Security Management, IT HR - Staffing - Training

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