It's always funny to me how Microsoft gets treated differently than other software vendors. Sure, we own a large marketshare, and of course, it's always fun to "pile on" the market leader (everyone loves the underdog). But I'm not seeing alot of info...

Hello Microsoft Argentina! I arrived in country at about Noon and had a meeting at 1:00 PM. I'm here working with Pablo Anslemo and his security team. Pable only has me for 1.5 days, so he's doing a great job in getting me in front of as many customers...

Okay, I don't apparently need to hunt for any security topic. They just find me. There is one company (and CEO) that just continue to amaze with their statements. Does anyone take this guy seriously? Yes, it's Symantec again. Today at the CeBIT conference...

It's a bad thing when the first thing you think of when you're flying through the Andes is that movie Alive! about the soccer team. (I hope I brought along enough Clif bars to nourish the survivors in a "worst case scenario"). ...but I digress. It's like...

Well, I spent the last two days in Chile and it was absolutely amazing! My experience with Latin America to date has been a 30-day stay in a Panamanian jungle during my Army Ranger days, and a short vacation in Cozumel. Neither of these were extremely...

"Buenos dias! Me llamo Senor Axford. ¿Habla usted inglés?" So far, this seems to sum up my travel adventure to Santiago, Chile (as well as the extent of my Spanish language skills). As many of you know, this is pretty much what I do: Fly to faraway places...

Again, please correct me if this recent report seems to be a bit self-serving. The jist of this report is saying, " Yeah...Vista is good...but it's not perfect....what would make it perfect is the use of some 3rd party security stuff...umm...like our...

For those who attended one of the PDC conferences (2005, I think), you may remember this video. With the Vista/Office 2007/Exchange 2007 launches in full swing (and the fact that I watched Napoleon Dynamite for the umpteenth time earlier this week......

As you probably already know, my full time job is to travel around the world speaking to execs and IT Pros about the world of information security. Recently, I was invited to speak at the North Carolina Technology Association's Five Pillars of Executive...

(Trying this again, after apparently overwriting my earlier blog post....troubleshooting blogs...fun times) Well, I am long overdue in posting this and I apologize. As many of you are aware, I spend about 70% of my time on the road doing international...

Finally it's warming up. Still very "brisk" here in Ottawa, the capitol city of Canada (It's not Toronto, for those geographically challenged.) I'm in town to speak to some of the federal government folks and ISSA Ottawa, and I'm very excited. While here...

My boss was right: You should go to Brazil in the winter and Canada in the summer. I thought I could endure. I've been to survival training, I've frozen my butt off in Dahlonega, Georgia in Mountain Phase of Ranger School . Nothing prepares you for the...

Holy crap it's cooooold . I'm certainly no lightweight when it comes to enduring cold...I'm from Wisconsin, I love the snow and ice, I play ice hockey, and I love to snowboard. I'm the guy who is walking around in a t-shirt when everyone else is wearing...

I wanted to thank Keith Combs and his excellent blog for reminding everyone of my man-crush on Jack Bauer. Someone pointed me to a terrific website and I just had to share. It's called " Top 100 Facts About Jack Bauer ". Here are some of the best: "The...

Well, I am long overdue in posting this and I apologize. As many of you are aware, I spend about 70% of my time on the road doing international travel, so I'm usually trying to figure out how to say, "Take me to the < insert hotel chain here > hotel...

So I want to take a second to vent. First, I recognize that I work for Microsoft and before the whole Trustworthy Computing thing (which hit it's 5 year anniversary this week) the concept of security and Microsoft was the brunt of several jokes. Not hurting...

I got told today about a new phishing attack that the guys at Sophos found. This one seems to just cut through the smoke and mirrors. It tells you that a hit man (aka Tony and his crew) has been hired to kill you. However, for the mere fee of $80,000...

Well, it happens sooner or later. Someone (probably you) ends up setting your keys somewhere and then spend the next 20 minutes destroying your house looking for them. I actually had a friend who left in his keys inside the refrigerator once. Sad. When...

For those of you who don't regularly read Bruce Schneier's blog (or books for that matter), it's a pretty good read and one you should consider. He found a YouTube gem from the TV show "Family Guy" that shows Stewie doing some pen-testing of his own....

This is just too funny not to post. Things like this seem to happen pretty regularly here at Microsoft, especially when it refers to coffee. I guess coffee is liquid gold to our army of developers and running out is a serious issue. DCR is a "design change...

I'm guessing your here to see the "sexy models". Well, I'm about to start delivering a session on Threat Modeling , which is about 100x more useful than any runway modeling. I'll leave the glamour modeling to Tyra Banks and Heidi Klum . (I especially...

It's very rare that I get to work in lyrics from a Jim Morrison song into my blog, but this is a good one. I hope that everyone reading this is aware that Windows Defender (Beta 2) expired on 12/31/2006. Users running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003...

Ever wonder what I do when I'm not haggling for an upgrade on some cross-country flight? Well, if you said, "Yeah...you're reading up and testing all the new security products." or what most say, "You're playing that darn World of Warcraft " Well, one...

I get asked this question fairly frequently and I usually do have a security book in my “ Currently Reading ” stack….along with a fair amount of books on World War II (I’m a big military history buff), books on Christianity (The Bible being the most prominent...

Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas! As if you didn’t have enough to worry about with last minute shopping, snow days, etc. this December….now you have some new e-Discovery procedures to worry about. The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), amended...