Buried away on the Microsoft website is a really good webcast which delves into the technical details of how Kerberos works - to access the free session simply follow the URL listed below: http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/shared/asp/view.asp?url=/Seminar...

Using and Managing the Windows XP SP2 Windows Firewall Join Microsoft experts from the Windows Firewall product group to discuss the Windows Firewall in Windows XP SP2. The Windows Firewall product group can answer questions about anything from configuration...

If you're a UK tax payer then your donations to registered charities will qualify for tax relief meaning that an extra 28% will be added by the Inland Revenue for regular tax payers and 40% for higher tax payers. The charity can claim back the tax you...

Bruce Cowper has posted an interesting article discussing Passwords and Passphrases following Bill's keynote @ ITForum last month. Clearly we'd all like to see the back of passwords as they are unfriendly to users. In time technology may make it feasible...

Paul Thurrot has posted an article which includes comments following an "interview with Giant co-founder Andrew Newman just days before his company was purchased by Microsoft". The article is well worth a read - here are a couple of excerpts: " We decided...

Browse to http://blogs.msdn.com/benriga/archive/2004/12/28/338992.aspx for an interesting review of our upcoming anti-spyware software - Ben shares is experience of using the beta code.

TechNet Webcast: Windows XP Service Pack 2 Security Technologies - (Level 200) Friday, January 07, 2005 - 9:00 AM-10:30 AM Kai Axford, Security Specialist, Microsoft Corporation Are you taking advantage of the most current tools and resources to protect...

Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Security360 with Mike Nash: Keeping an Eye on Spyware - (Level 200) Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 9:00 AM-10:00 AM Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President Security Business & Technology Unit, Microsoft Corporation Security360...

Join us for a week of webcasts to learn how ISA Server 2004 is uniquely optimized to protect your network environment against the latest forms of attacks - specifically those at the application later. You will receive a technical view of Internet Security...

"Microsoft plans to make available to Windows customers a beta version of a spyware protection, detection and removal tool, based on the GIANT AntiSpyware product, within one month. The upcoming beta will scan a customer's PC to locate spyware and other...

Keith Brown has published a very interesting guide to Windows Security - the twist is that it's available both as a convential book and here as a wiki. For those of you who are not familiar with the concept of a Wiki there's a good defn & explaination...

John Howard's just posted an article advertising the event which will take place in Birmingham. Speakers will include Eileen Brown , John , and myself. I've copied the following from John's article: Free Technet IT Forum Highlights all-day event in Birmingham...

The Microsoft® IT Showcase website includes a new article detailing our approach to assessing the security compliance of our internal systems. Techniques and methodologies are discussed to limit the points of exposure whilst addressing the unique management...

The vast majority of firewalls on the market don't inspect the payload of packets - instead they attempt to make decisions based on source address, destination address and the port of the traffic. Historically many people took the port to be a statement...

The Microsoft® IT Showcase website is a great resource for learning how we secure our environment at Microsoft. MicrosoftIT provide a managed highly available Information Rights Management (IRM) solution for employees use worldwide. A new article has...

Ever wondered how we secure our own infrastructure? The ITShowCase website provides IT Professionals with the low down on how we develop, deploy and manage our enterprise technology solutions. The site contains both business decision maker suitable content...

Eileen Brown has just posted an interesting article on her Blog which explains a new technique we're going to use to share snippits of content as she explains in the following extract of her post: " Sometimes there just isn't time to view a whole Webcast...