Welcome to the Microsoft Services Cybersecurity Blog

2012-06-04T14:23:06Z

Hi, my name is Pat Arnold, I am the General Manager of the Microsoft Services’ Cybersecurity Team based in Reston, VA, and I would like to spend a few minutes to introduce you to our new Cybersecurity blog.

The Cybersecurity team focuses exclusively on working closely with customers on advanced topics relating to Cybersecurity, such as:

The Evolving Threat Landscape and Threat Intelligence
Incident Response
Persistent Adversary Detection and Analysis
Compromise Recovery
Forensics
Complex Direct Access and IPv6 Solutions
Enhanced Security Environments for Web access and Admins
Secure Software Design and Development Practices

We have a world class team of consultants and architects with decades of experience working with internal Microsoft development teams, large software developers, global commercial enterprises and local and international Public Sector customers including Local, State and Federal agencies and the Military.

In this blog we aim to provide timely and useful commentary about current cyber-threats, mitigations and observations. Our mantra for each post will be “pragmatic.”

Examples of some upcoming topics include:

Common Security Vulnerabilities and Defensive Strategies
What Public Sector clients can learn from recent cyber attacks
What the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) means to Public Sector clients
FIPS 140 and the SDL
Tips for Implementing SDL without sacrificing ship dates.
The various credential repositories and their risk.
Pass-the-hash attacks and what to do about them
Security monitoring as a measurement discipline
The importance of managing who is a local administrator on your workstations
Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit security mitigations
IPv6 and DirectAccess practices and insights
Responding to a Breach
And much more!

We expect to publish at least one post every other week, because we want to keep the posts useful and high quality.

So stay tuned, add our URL to your Favorites bar or subscribe to our RSS.

Pat Arnold