Just like the detectives do on weekly television crime dramas, put yourself in the mind of the bad guy. Pretend that you're the criminal who brokers stolen personal information with organized crime syndicates overseas. Put yourself behind the eyes of the malicious hacker who plans to breach merchant networks and compromise wholesale volumes of consumer payment card information, the kind of information that can be bartered within the internet's dark underbelly.

There's been plenty of talk about the security capabilities of Windows Vista, but what's at the heart of the security defenses within Microsoft's latest operating system? This article aims to take a close look at the technology that will make a difference.