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• Security – One of the Key Reasons to Migrate to Windows Vista (part 2)

  In my last post , I briefly touched on different features of Windows Vista, which I think are important with regards to the view on Windows XP vs. Windows Vista. Let’s take a different approach now: I recently was on a panel in Eastern Europe where I... Posted Nov 16 2008, 06:20 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, trends, Microsoft Products

• Security – One of The Key Reasons to Migrate to Windows Vista (part 1)

  The value of Windows Vista is often questioned. There are a lot of customers who still think that there might be nor reason to migrate to Windows Vista. I will publish two blog posts giving you some views on the security of our latest operating system... Posted Nov 11 2008, 09:24 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Microsoft Products

• The Next Version of ISA Server (“live” from TechEd EMEA)

  If is once again one of these posts with the start like “I am just sitting in a session…”. Actually I had some time today to visit sessions and look into some things I have never seen. We often have discussions around the future of our products and what... Posted Nov 04 2008, 06:34 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Microsoft Products, TechEd EMEA

• Network Access Protection Design Guide

  I you are looking into deploying Network Access Protection, have a look at the recently published Network Access Protection Design Guide Roger Share this post: Read More... Posted Oct 10 2008, 01:02 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Technology, Microsoft Products

• Some Thoughts on UAC

  I blogged several times already on UAC as this has been (and partly still is) a very disputed security feature in Windows Vista (which I still support!). I just found today a not really new blog post on UAC, which I think is worth reading. It is from... Posted Oct 06 2008, 04:27 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Technology, trends, Microsoft Products, Trustworthy Computing

• IE8 – a new Set of Privacy Features

  As you (hopefully) know, the release of Internet Explorer 8 is coming closer. One thing we always look at is how to make surfing more secure and more private. The IE team just launched a blog post on the InPrivate features of IE 8 which is definitely... Posted Aug 26 2008, 06:49 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Microsoft Products

• The “successful” attack on Cardspace

  I guess you read it as it was pretty wide-spread in the press in the last few days: On the Insecurity of Microsoft's Identity Metasystem CardSpace . Well, is there any official Microsoft reaction to it? No, not yet and if you look a little bit more... Posted Jun 02 2008, 02:38 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Technology, Microsoft Products, Incidents

• How to Hack Windows Vista

  No, no. For sure. I am not going to give you advise how to hack – but look at this video: http://www.offensive-security.com/movies/vistahack/vistahack.html . I am always amazed about these kind of videos, which still surprise people. If look years back... Posted May 26 2008, 11:45 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Microsoft Products, Cybercrime, Incidents

• Testing our Security Technology

  Quite a while ago, I blogged on Virtual Labs, an offering we are making to you to get your hands dirty with our products and give you the opportunity to work with different hands-on labs. There is the VirtualLabs offering, containing MSDN and TechNet... Posted May 05 2008, 11:05 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Microsoft Products, Events/Training

• Securing your Web Browser

  Cert.org published guidance on how to secure your browser. Here you would find them if you are interested: Securing Your Web Browser I am just not clear, how the browsing experience for my mom and dad would be… Roger Share this post: Read More... Posted Apr 29 2008, 02:56 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Microsoft Products

• Best Practices for Microsoft PKI & Certificate Management

  You might know Brian Komar. He wrote numerous books on PKI and Certificate Management and he is a well-known speaker at quite some events like TechEd and IT Forum. Now, nCipher organized a Webimar on Best Practices for Microsoft PKI & Certificate... Posted Apr 29 2008, 02:19 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Technology, Microsoft Products, Processes

• Infoweb on Windows Server 2008 Security and Privacy

  We launched Windows Server 2008 (as you hopefully know J ). Infoweb published an article on Windows Server 2008 Security and Privacy: http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/02/27/Microsoft-touts-Longhorn-security_1.html Roger Share this post: Read More.... Posted Feb 29 2008, 11:27 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Microsoft Products

• Securing My Infrastructure: Firewall

  Well, this is a follow-up of my last posts about how I secure my environment. If you want to read the earlier posts of the series, see at the end of this post. So, we did the Risk Assessment, now, let's look a little bit closer into my perimeter. Technically... Posted Feb 28 2008, 10:33 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Microsoft Products, Securing My Infrastructure

• What is a „Kill-Bit“?

  We often refer the kill-bit in our Security Bulletins when it comes to ActiveX or COM-objects as a workaround. So, pretty often I get questions around the kill-bit. The Secure Windows Initiative (SWI) just started to publish a series of three posts about... Posted Feb 09 2008, 06:59 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Microsoft Products

• Microsoft Windows CardSpace and the Identity Metasystem

  A friend of mine (Ole Tom Seierstad, the Norwegian CSA) just published a very interesting article on Microsoft Windows CardSpace and the Identity Metasystem . So, have a look. Happy reading Roger Share this post: Read More... Posted Jan 31 2008, 07:44 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Microsoft Products

• Securing My Infrastructure: Introduction (part 2)

  Looking at Jacks comment to my initial post this morning ( Securing My Infrastructure: Introduction ) it seems that I have to give you some additional information: So let me start with the goal of this network: Basically I started to build it on one server... Posted Jan 29 2008, 07:59 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Microsoft Products, Securing My Infrastructure

• Participate in the Windows Server 2008 Security Guide Beta program!

  We just started the Beta program for the Windows Server 2008 Security Guide. So, if you plan to roll out Windows Server 2008 soon, participate and have a look at it: Here is the Technet Executive overview. To join the Beta program, click here . Roger... Posted Jan 12 2008, 06:41 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Microsoft Products

• Extranet Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint - Beta

  Working together within different organizations and companies is always a big challenge. How can you work within different workspaces and share documents etc.? Usually you use E-Mail is the core infrastructure to share information. We just released a... Posted Jan 06 2008, 03:41 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Microsoft Products

• Have a look at Server and Domain Isolation

  I am often talking about different zones in the network and how you can create them. There is no a demo kit available for you to download and "play" with it: Server and Domain Isolation Demo Roger Share this post: Read More... Posted Dec 13 2007, 03:25 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Microsoft, Technology, Microsoft Products

• Mary Jo Foley: It’s payback time: If the Vista team could write ad copy …

  Well, well: You know that I never ever would bash a competitor and I will not do so now. However, I have to give you the link to the above mentioned article – not because of the article but because of the comments the article got. It seems that our efforts... Posted Nov 06 2007, 04:20 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Microsoft Products