I would like to announce the beta release for the Microsoft® Forefront™ Integration Kit for Network Access Protection. We are making this beta release available so that we can get your feedback. With your help, we can ensure that the Kit meets your needs...

A number of members of the Solution Accelerators - Security and Compliance (SA-SC) team will be at Tech-Ed 2007 from June 4th - 8th in Orlando, and we're looking forward to talking to some of our customers. We will have a booth in the Technical Learning...

Ross Carter and Bill Canning of the Microsoft Solutions for Security and Compliance team will be conducting a webcast on September 14th to discuss their recently released Regulatory Compliance Planning Guide. The webcast will start at 11:00am Pacific...

At Tech Ed 2007 last week, the Solution Accelerators team publicly announced the release of the Data Encryption Toolkit for Mobile PCs . The Toolkit is our latest work, and is the newest in a suite of Windows Vista™ Solution Accelerators. The Toolkit...

Windows Server 2008 introduced a new PC protection technology that provides administrators an answer to a complex problem: How do you make sure that computers that use network resources are healthy? Network Access Protection (NAP) was engineered to provide...

If you deal with credit cards at your company, you probably have had to worry about the Payment Card Industry data security standards. Earlier this month, five credit card companies got together to create the PCI Security Standards Council ( https://www...

As a member of the Solution Accelerators - Security and Compliance (SA-SC) team, I’d like to share an observation and ask for some feedback from our readers. The current top 10 SAs (Solution Accelerators) are: Business Desktop Deployment 2007...

Employees need to share documents with individuals from other companies, such as partners and suppliers. These documents often contain sensitive information that needs to be kept safe and secure. Microsoft SharePoint products deliver the document collaboration...

There's been a lot of conversation about this topic recently on my project team, and I'm starting to agree that long non-complex passwords seem to be a better way to go than shorter "complex" passwords. Check out this article in Infoworld for an interesting...

My team has made edits / updates to some of our guides: Security Risk Management Guide v1.2 March 16, 2006 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/topics/complianceandpolicies/secrisk/default.mspx The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 Threat...

Participate in a pre-release review program for the Windows Vista Security Guide . The Program ends September 26. This guide will provide IT Professionals with specific recommendations and tools about how to guard against real-world security threats...

Our final Solution Accelerator story is about Napera, a company that provided an interesting twist to the Microsoft Forefront Integration Kit for NAP: a simple-to-use NAP appliance. Napera focuses on organizations with a need for a simple defense-in-depth...

In line with my team's efforts to make sure the prescriptive guidance we provide is authoritative and up to date, we've updated the Securing Windows 2000 Server solution . It includes information about risk assessment and analysis, securing specific critical...

I am happy to announce the beta release for the Extranet Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint. We are making this beta release available in order to get feedback from our customers and partners. With your help, we can ensure that the Extranet Collaboration...

If you are thinking about laptop protection, specifically how to protect your company's laptops if they are lost or stolen, we would like to hear from you. My group (Microsoft Solutions for Security and Compliance) is looking at this topic, and would...

Our team has just shipped a Beta release of the Fundamental Computer Investigation Guide for Windows . This new Solution Accelerator will provide IT Professionals with the tools, processes, and best practices necessary to conduct an internal computer...

I am happy to announce the release of the External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint! What is the External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint? The External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint provides guidance and tools to deploy a pre-built...

Fellow MSSCer José Maldonado just posted an update on the Windows Vista Security Guide - one of our very important solutions-in-progress - to the Windows Vista Security blog . Enjoy! Derick Campbell Microsoft Solutions for Security and Compliance

The next installment of the Forefront Client Security/NAP integration story is about one of our partners. In today's blog we will look at a partner who has become and advocate for both NAP and Forefront Client Security (FCS). Fatih from Blue...