It has security, directory, identity, privacy, storage, compute, the whole Web services stack.

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Uncertainty aside, today's e-business imperative waits on no protocol, and your efforts to enable e-business will soon stall without a good security and directory infrastructure.

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Once PKI is as easy to use as passwords - and we can understand how to manage related directory and security services - we can aspire to reach the pinnacle of cryptography.

CNN: Easy-to-use PKI is key to cryptography's success

But if information technology managers want to take advantage of the reasons companies want to buy in to Windows 2000, such as public-key security and the new directory, then they will have to change those applications.

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With an active directory and new security features, NT 5.0 is in the second phase of a three-part beta-testing cycle.

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Bruce Schneier, an internet-security expert, thinks it is a bit like worrying about spammers stealing a copy of the telephone directory.

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