There are a number of videos which can be freely downloaded from here - they are not technical but may be useful to help your friends and colleagues. The following sessions are available: 3 things you can do to prevent spyware What you should...

It’s amazing how much you can find out about a person or organisation from simple "non-sensitive" pieces of information. I’m staggered how much information is freely available in public areas of most corporations. I view most large offices (apart from...

This post has been replaced by a series of five blogcasts as quite a bit has changed since I wrote this post over three years ago - specifically Windows Vista has a different user interface. The replacement blogcasts are as follows: How to secure a...

I'm trying to avoid the tendancy of assuming that I know the pain you're going through when it comes to applying effective security techniques to your environment and/or that of your customers/clients. What I'm asking for hear is a reality check in the...

Recently my Blog was moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/steve_lamb to http://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb and a redirect was set up from the old one to the new. Please use the technet address in future (and update your aggregator if you're using one) to...

Rhys Wilkins recently made me aware of an article which advises several good practises in making sure your code isn't susceptable to SQL Injection attacks. The first prosecution (that I've heard of) was way back in 1996! The article is located here...

Rights Management provides the capability for the author of a document or email to define the way in which the information can be used - the data is encrypted and it's rights "live" with the document. General information about Rights Management can be...

Come and spend a day with Microsoft and partner Identity Management experts who will demonstrate how to deal with user administration, security, compliance, directory services, single sign on, password management, and self service. There will be sessions...

It seems like no time since ITForum and yet it's almost time for TechEd Europe which will take place in Amsterdam, there's a pre-conference day on 4th July, the main conference runs from 5 - 8th July. The pre-conference day offers a wide range of subjects...

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 includes support for the Quarantine feature of Routing and Remote Access(RRAS). Quarantine can be used to automatically assess the "health" of client machines which attempt to access corporate resources via dial up or...

I've spoken to a number of people recently about how to improve the level of security in software that's written both "in house" and by third party developers. One thing that came up again and again is that it's very rare for security requirements to...

It was great to meet so many of you at InfoSec last week in London. As promised all of the presentations from our Security Academy(in the Pillar Room) will be posted for free download to the following URL http://www.microsoft.com/uk/technet/learning/...

A series of seven papers covering all aspects of IPsec are now available for free download from our website. Microsoft recently deployed IPsec internally to isolate our network domains and prevent traffic from automatically passing between boundaries...