For years, Microsoft has has an albatross around its neck when it comes to its reputation for security.

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Those first few hours sum up all the problems of doing business in Indonesia: excessive red tape, unproductive labour, bad infrastructure, a lack of respect for the rule of law and a reputation for lax security.

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Charlie Miller is an NSA-trained hacker with an elite reputation for tracking down dangerous security flaws in software.

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Reputation has become an effective and required ingredient for many aspects of security.

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Well known in national security circles, the highly decorated war veteran has established a reputation for being a strong strategic thinker.

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The Shenzhen-based telecom firm says it wants to address concerns over security, state support and intellectual property by correcting the false claims that have tarnished its reputation for the past decade.

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