Over the past few posts we’ve been covering the concept of the BYOD trend. We started with a foundation describing the origins and evolution of BYOD, followed by a closer examination of the pros and cons of BYOD from the employee perspective. This post will focus on BYOD from the point of view of the company or IT organization. In case you’re just joining us, let’s quickly recap what BYOD is. BYOD is an acronym for “bring your own device”. It’s a trend in business...

In this second article in my series focused on Microsoft’s free security tools, I’d like to introduce you to the Attack Surface Analyzer version 1.0.  Back in January of 2011 the Security Development Lifecycle team released a beta version of the Attack Surface Analyzer and today they announced the release of version 1.0.

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It’s been almost a year since I wrote about the threat landscape in Africa based on data published in the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report volume 10 (SIRv10).  Using the latest data published in the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report volume 12 (SIRv12), we took a fresh look at how the threats in Africa have changed over the one year period between the second half of 2010 and the second half of 2011. 

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