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Tomorrow at 2:30 pm Eastern time, tune in via Twitter to see Kelly Higgins of Dark Reading interview JG Chirapuarth, senior director of the Microsoft Identity and Security Business Group. You can follow the discussion at either the Dark Reading or Forefront Twitter Account .

Every day most of us take for granted people’s ability to login, authenticate, and access the data they need. We start to take more notice when people can’t access their data, perhaps remotely over the internet, or there is a need for companies to share data. Under all of this is an assumed cost of managing...

Andrew Garcia over at eWeek has written an excellent article describing his experience testing Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010's capabilities for assisting deployment of Microsoft Windows' DirectAccess. I thought I'd add a little color commentary to the deployment topic.. A little over a year before...

At my first 1-on-1 this year with Lee Nackman, the Identity and Security Division's Corporate Vice President, he asked me how something could possibly work. While on vacation on the east coast Lee had changed his password to Microsoft's corporate network using Outlook Web Access from a family computer...

When I talk to CIOs, CSOs or even IT professionals today, there is a consistent theme in every conversation: the ever increasing mobility of today's workforce. What are the implications to IT when it comes to mobility? It essentially breaks down to remote access from any device from anywhere or very...

Direct Access (DA) is a game-changing technology for remote access in your company; removing the need for a VPN all together. Within Microsoft, we've seen great productivity benefits to end users. We surveyed users from our DA pilot and over 87% saw instant productivity gains, overall resulting in net...