By Steve Riley Senior Security Strategist Trustworthy Computing Group, Microsoft Corporation (originally published at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/secmgmt/sm0208.mspx ) I’ve met thousands of IT pros during my years speaking at conferences...

Surely time itself has warped and it's suddenly April 1st. Come on, if you read the following, wouldn't you first think it was a hoax, as did I? Virus from China, the gift that keeps on giving An insidious computer virus recently discovered on...

IPsec is a wonderful technology for identifying computers and securing the exchange of data between them. I've written and spoken extensively about in the past. It is, however, a bit of a challenge to configure, especially if you're newly learning about...

An interesting question came up today. The group responsible for configuring and maintaining the firewalls at a customer also believes that they should be the only ones to audit their configurations. Others in the security department are uneasy with this...

I've seen some conversations lately about the Power Users group -- how powerful is it, really, and why did we remove the group from Windows Vista? That group had rights install software and drivers. And if you can install software and drivers, then you...

Another new resource for you... I know from my time with customers in meetings and at events that NAP is something you're all very interested in. You're also being a bit cautious, waiting to see how the market matures, and hoping to learn how some customers...

TechNet Spotlight features videos of many presentations from our TechEd conferences. Here are some of mine. It's 11:00 PM, do you know where your data is? IT Forum: TechEd Europe, November 2007 The fortified data center in your future TechEd US, June...