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• Managing the Windows Vista Firewall

  If you're an IT pro who is looking a bit more seriously at Windows Vista for your enterprise environment, you should take a close look at the firewall. Once you realize what the Windows Vista firewall can do, you may want to renegotiate the agreement... Posted May 26 2008, 06:58 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, Network, Consumer, OS, Enterprise, Developer, Policy, Strategy

• Cyber-Attacks and Cyber-Disasters: Are You Prepared?

  Have you seen the recent television commercial that shows the Pentagon and says, "This building gets attacked 3 million times a day." The sad news is that it's true. Cyber-warfare and cyber-attacks have now become a reality. Ever consider... Posted May 14 2008, 04:24 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Enterprise, Strategy

• Infosec/Microsoft: Security community must work together

  Microsoft has called on companies to work together to improve overall security, and not just rely on the police to do it for them. Ed Gibson, Microsoft's chief security advisor in the UK, said during his keynote at Infosecurity Europe 2008 that security... Posted Apr 30 2008, 03:22 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Microsoft, Enterprise, Developer, Strategy

• Microsoft calls for talks on Internet trust, safety

  Microsoft today called for broad discussions about the safety of the Internet in an initiative it dubbed "End to End Trust" in a white paper released during the RSA Conference that opened today in San Francisco. In a keynote address at the security conference... Posted Apr 11 2008, 06:16 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, IE, Windows, Microsoft, Virtualization, email, Network, Consumer, antivirus, OS, Enterprise, Identity Management, Developer, trends, WIFI, PKI, Policy, Strategy, NAP IPSEC, Remote Access

• Ballmer Outlines Vision For Next Computing Revolution

  The rise of PCs, graphical user interfaces, the Internet, and Web 2.0 technologies have obviously had major impacts on the IT industry, but according to Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer, the computing revolution that's about to take place will... Posted Mar 10 2008, 04:25 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Microsoft, Consumer, Enterprise, trends, Strategy

• Identity management critical for security, government IT shops say

  A majority of government IT organizations say identity management is very important to securing their networks and will become even more so over the next five years, but that funding to keep pace is a major impediment to growth. The respondents also said... Posted Mar 07 2008, 04:14 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Enterprise, Identity Management, trends, Strategy, Survey

• ITU study group Q.22/1 - Report on best practices for a national approach to cybersecurity

  A management framework for organizing national cybersecurity efforts: http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/cyb/cybersecurity/docs/itu-draft-cybersecurity-framework.pdf Urs...( read more ) Share this post: Read More... Posted Feb 21 2008, 07:28 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Enterprise, Policy, Strategy, CIIP

• Introducing SAFECode [Michael Howard]

  SAFECode, the Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code, introduced its first white paper, "Software Assurance: An Overview of Current Industry Best Practices." The organization was founded by Microsoft, Symantec, EMC, SAP and Juniper to advance... Posted Feb 21 2008, 07:15 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, OS, Enterprise, Developer, Policy, Strategy

• German Police Creating LE Trojan

  German cops are pushing ahead with controversial plans, yet to be legally approved, to develop "remote forensic software" - in other words, a law enforcement Trojan. Leaked documents outline proposals by German firm Digitask to develop software to intercept... Posted Feb 14 2008, 01:51 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Consumer, Enterprise, Strategy, Law Enforcment, Forensic

• Minimizing User Rights Can Increase Security

  Taking a least-privilege approach to user accounts is a key part of any in-depth defense strategy, many analysts and security pros say. "I think it's very important … not even just as [a component] of security, but in the broader sense [of] risk posed... Posted Feb 07 2008, 02:42 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Office, IE, Windows, Microsoft, email, Consumer, antivirus, OS, Enterprise, Developer, trends, Policy, Strategy

• Forensics Plan Guide (GIAC)

  The Forensics Plan Guide defines the basic elements of a Forensic Plan from the first initial contact through submission of the final Forensic Report. The document also includes 'The Forensic Cookbook' which illustrates the use of selected products and... Posted Feb 04 2008, 07:31 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Strategy, Law Enforcment, Forensic

• Virtualization: What are the security risks?

  Virtualization will become dominant in enterprises, but the security risks are fuzzy at best. Meanwhile, the usual defense–firewalls, security appliances and such aren’t ready for virtualization. http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=821 Urs...( read more... Posted Jan 29 2008, 01:07 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, Consumer, Enterprise, trends, Strategy

• Open-source projects certified as secure – huh?

  From the Blog of Michael Howard: I really got a chuckle out of this news item, especially this line: “Coverity, which creates automated source-code analysis tools, announced late Monday its first list of open-source projects that have been certified as... Posted Jan 17 2008, 02:57 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Enterprise, Developer, trends, Strategy

• Microsoft placed in Visionaries Quadrant in latest Gartner SSL VPN Magic Quadrant

  On December 6, analyst firm Gartner Inc., announced that Microsoft Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG) 2007 is positioned in the Visionaries quadrant of their 2007 SSL VPN Magic Quadrant report. Not only was IAG described as an “excellent new product... Posted Jan 07 2008, 05:04 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, Consumer, OS, Enterprise, trends, Policy, Strategy

• Tech Insight: Microsoft's IPSec and NAP/NAC

  Windows' built-in security capabilities offer endpoint alternative to NAP/NAC Microsoft’s support of the IP Security (IPSec) standard was enhanced with the release of Windows Vista this year, and interest in the technology will likely grow with the introduction... Posted Dec 29 2007, 01:24 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, OS, Enterprise, WIFI, Policy, Strategy, NAP IPSEC

• Microsoft Files Patent for HoneyMonkey Exploit Finder

  Microsoft has filed a patent claim for the Strider HoneyMonkey malware/exploit detection system created by our internal research unit. The claim, currently being reviewed at Peer-to-Patent. The HoneyMonkey system, first discussed in August 2005, is best... Posted Dec 29 2007, 01:19 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, Consumer, antivirus, OS, Enterprise, trends, Policy, Strategy

• One-fifth of Windows apps go unpatched

  Updates are available, but users haven't installed them, says Secunia. One in five applications installed on Windows PCs are missing security patches, a Copenhagen-based vulnerability tracker has reported. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do... Posted Dec 29 2007, 01:15 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Consumer, OS, Enterprise, trends, Strategy, Survey

• A very long list of new Microsoft products for 2008...

  Bink.nu has an extensive list of new software that Microsoft will be unleashing in the marketplace. See yourself: http://blogs.technet.com/tarpara/archive/2007/12/25/microsoft-s-new-year-is-gonna-bring-a-lot-of-change.aspx Urs...( read more ) Share this... Posted Dec 28 2007, 05:13 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Office, IE, Windows, Microsoft, SQL, Consumer, antivirus, OS, Enterprise, Developer, trends, Strategy

• MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR / FRÖHLICHE WEIHNACHTEN UND EIN GUTES NEUES JAHR!

  Yes, I know, another one of these posts... I'm not sure if this will be the last post of this year, but it's definitely a good moment to say thank you to all the readers, customers and colleagues and to wish you all the best! Looking back, this was a... Posted Dec 24 2007, 03:33 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Microsoft, Consumer, Enterprise, trends, Strategy

• How Microsoft does IT - Showcase information and documentation from Microsoft IT

  Microsoft IT is regularly posting articles as best practices information about how Mirosoft's internal IT is operating their systems and services. I have picked out some interesting and security related posts: Enabling Information Security through HBI... Posted Dec 18 2007, 02:47 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Microsoft, Enterprise, Policy, Strategy

• Fewer patches != safer OS

  Does one OS having fewer security patches than another operating system mean that the OS with the fewer patches is the safest OS? You know, I’m not sold on that concept. As we near the first anniversary of the consumer launch of Windows Vista we’ll be... Posted Dec 17 2007, 04:41 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, OS, trends, Strategy

• Ninety-five percent of e-mails sent in 2007 are junk

  Barracuda Networks released its annual spam report, which shows between 90 to 95 percent of all e-mail sent in 2007 is spam. This is based on an analysis of more than 1 billion daily e-mail messages sent to its more than 50,000 customers worldwide. The... Posted Dec 17 2007, 04:39 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, email, Consumer, Enterprise, trends, Strategy

• Enterprise@Risk: 2007 Privacy & Data Protection Survey

  Reportable and multiple privacy breaches rising at alarming rate! Personally identifiable information of customers and employees is being exposed – frequently and repeatedly – potentially putting hundreds of thousands of individuals at risk and exposing... Posted Dec 17 2007, 04:37 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Enterprise, trends, Policy, Strategy

• Microsoft Security Assessment Tool (MSAT) Version 3.5 released

  Microsoft has released the Microsoft Security Assessment Tool (MSAT) Version 3.5 is released on the Microsoft Download Center. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6D79DF9C-C6D1-4E8F-8000-0BE72B430212&displaylang=en . MSAT is targeted... Posted Dec 13 2007, 09:20 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Microsoft, Strategy

• The next generation of security threats

  This is part 3 in a series examining how Microsoft's security strategy has evolved over the past decade. Very intersting reading: http://www.news.com/The-next-generation-of-security-threats/2009-7349_3-6221150.html Robert Hensing: "That's one thing I... Posted Dec 06 2007, 09:44 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Microsoft, Enterprise, Strategy