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Security, Privacy and Compliance Information for Microsoft Online Services. At Microsoft, we appreciate the trust you place in us by using our online services to manage your valuable data. To reinforce that trust, we strive to be as transparent as possible about how we handle your information. The Microsoft...

Below you’ll find a list of upcoming Business Insights webcasts that are focused on Identity & Access solutions and their connection/impact with mainstream MS workloads (Cloud, Windows 7, SharePoint, Exchange, System Center).  They will be delivered by leading US IDA SI’s, and will later be...

The Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library V4.2 (AntiXSS V4.2) is an encoding library designed to help developers protect their ASP.NET web-based applications from XSS attacks. It differs from most encoding libraries in that it uses the white-listing technique -- sometimes referred to as the principle...

Hello IT Professionals, Exactly a year back in May 2010 I had blogged about Microsoft PoC Jumpstart Kit v1.0 over here http://blogs.technet.com/b/aviraj/archive/2010/05/01/proof-of-concept-jumpstart-kit-v1-0.aspx Everyone liked the PoC Kit offered by Microsoft. Now, we have released Microsoft Proof of...

Office 365 is a suite of Internet-based services that are designed to help meet your needs for robust security, 24/7 reliability, and user productivity. This set of documents provides service descriptions for the components of the suite. Microsoft Exchange Online for Enterprises Service Description ...

This White Paper describes how Office 365 fulfills the security, compliance and risk management requirements as defined by the Cloud Security Alliance, Cloud Control Matrix. The Cloud Security Alliance published the Cloud Control Matrix, to support consumers in the evaluation of cloud services and to...

Moving productivity services to the cloud requires a serious consideration of security and privacy issues and technologies. Office 365 is designed to deliver the enterprise-grade security you require to move to the cloud with confidence. Our data centers are designed, built, an d managed using a defense...

Forefront UAG provides secure remote access by publishing corporate applications and resources for access by managed and unmanaged client endpoints, or by deployment of Forefront UAG DirectAccess. This download provides a security policy .xml template that can be used in conjunction with the Windows...

Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. Microsoft Security Essentials is a free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your...

Hello IT Professionals, During the upcoming Virtual TechDays Event, I will be presenting on the following topic in Modernize Business Desktop Track. Session 1 Session Title: Top 5 Free Desktop Deployment and Planning Tools for Every IT Professional Description: Today's IT Professionals spend lot of time...

Windows Internet Explorer 9 is the best suited browser for the Enterprises as well as consumers. Sometimes you don’t want to leave a trace of your web browsing activity on your computer. Whether it’s shopping for a gift on a shared PC or checking an account at an Internet café, you don’t want to leave...

Hello IT Professionals, Managing security and privacy can be a daunting task; so where do you begin? Join us for these interactive online series to help you learn how to better address your day-to-day security and privacy challenges, drawing from the experience of some of our top security industry experts...

The enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is designed to help prevent hackers from gaining access to your system. The new EMET 4.0 (Beta) features provides a preview on what’s in store for the final version. Please note that this is a "Beta" release. It is not ready for wide enterprise...

This is to inform you that Microsoft is announcing the availability of an update to Windows that restricts the use of certificates with RSA keys less than 1024 bits in length. This is a necessary step to enhance your security as today, keys smaller than 1024 bits cannot be seen as secure anymore. The...

It was a pleasure delivering the webcast today on Windows Server 2008 R2 AD RMS and FCI. The following demos that users liked include configuring AD RMS Server, using AD RMS Bulk Protection Tool. Along with these, the new feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 i.e. File Classification Infrastructure and AD...

What Is the Security Intelligence Report? The Security Intelligence Report (SIR) is an investigation of the current threat landscape. It analyzes exploits, vulnerabilities, and malware based on data from over 600 million systems worldwide, as well as internet services, and three Microsoft Security Centers...

About Microsoft Security Essentials Use Microsoft Security Essentials to guard against viruses, spyware, and other evil software. It provides real-time protection for your home or small business PCs. Microsoft Security Essentials is free* and we designed it to be simple to install and easy to use. It...

Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) Service Pack 1 (SP1) Update 1 is an update to Forefront UAG that provides a number of functionality updates and other improvements. Overview The following is provided by Forefront UAG Update 1: • Lync web services publishing —Forefront UAG now supports...

Security Compliance Manager 3.0 (SCM 3.0) is now available for download! SCM 3.0 is a free tool from the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team that enables you to quickly configure and manage both desktops and servers using Group Policy and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. In addition to...

Visit for more information http://www.yourbrowsermatters.org/#/home   Read the Windows Internet Explorer Team Blog. Are You One of the Millions at Risk from Socially Engineered Malware? http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2011/10/11/are-you-one-of-the-millions-at-risk-from-socially-engineered...

Monitor the Security Compliance of Your IT Environment for Computers Running Windows The Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series builds on previous Solution Accelerators to provide you with expanded best practices and additional automation tools to help configure and deploy security settings for...

Microsoft® Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Service Pack 2 (SP2) introduces new functionality to Forefront TMG 2010 Standard and Enterprise Editions. Overview The service pack includes the following new functionality and feature improvements: New Reports • The new Site Activity report displays...

  Master the art of breach-proof security management.       As our usage of computing devices grows, so does our vulnerability to malicious codes, viruses, cyber espionage, and malware.       Our upcoming webcasts discuss all that you need to know on how to make your...

The future of security baseline management has arrived. The new Security Compliance Manager will enable you to plan, deploy, operate, and manage your organization’s security baselines for Windows® client and server operating systems, and Microsoft applications. Earlier this year the Microsoft Solution...

Windows Vista introduced a variety of new security technologies that had a significant impact on the Windows ecosystem. User Account Control made it clear that Microsoft wanted to make easy for users to run Windows without being in the Administrators group. BitLocker introduced full volume encryption...