Jesper's Blog

Obligatory file photo: I am a Senior Security Strategist in the Security Technology Unit at Microsoft. My job is to explain to our customers how to run Microsoft products securely, and to the extent that it is needed, help the product groups figu

June, 2006

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    Resources from U.S. Security Summits

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    Many of the attendees from the recently concluded Security Summit series in the U.S. have been asking for the slides. Since we will be doing web casts of the presentations we are not making the slides availble. What many people want though are simply...
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    Please don't disable security features, at least while we are testing them

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    I couldn't tell you how many times I have either had the question "how do I turn off User Account Control" or heard the statement "boy, I sure hate all those annoying user account control popups in Vista." Yeah, security sucks, it gets in the way of...
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    Are You A People Person?

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    As my family keeps reminding me, I'm not much of a people person. It could just be that I am projecting myself onto others, but I am pretty sure that much of the IT industry is like me, which raises a number of serious security problems. If you are interested...
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    Structuring Infosec Organizationally

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    Last week I visited a customer and was greeted by two people who introduced themselves, respectively, as the "Chief Information Security Officer" and the "Chief IT Security Officer." Yes, they had two separate functions for this, one to secure information...
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