I was recently asked for suggestions to give to Chief Information Officers to improve their security posture. My suggestions were as follows - I'd love to hear your comments to see what you'd suggest: Here are my five tips for CIOs: Challenge...

Ron's comment asking "if it's all about risk why do we call it Information Risk Management" has certainly made me think... It's all very well for "security thinkers" to tell you all about all kinds of weird and wonderful threats to your information...

This must say more about me than I perhaps intend and I dare say it's not good! Earlier this morning I happily received a brand new shiny phone with all kinds of bells and whistles including 3G and a touch screen. My new device is an Orange M3100....

If you're not a crypto geek then don't be scared - read on! If this makes as much sense as boiling icecream then please let me know and I'll explain it in simpler terms - just hit the "comment" button. When you visit a website via HTTPS you're viewing...

As I wrote about yesterday the Parental (Family Safety) controls on Windows Vista provide comprehensive access control features. Shortly before visting someone to demonstrate these features I decided to run through them once again on my own - to my...

I'm getting on really well with my new phone - the Orange M3100 I mentioned earlier this week. I won't bore you with the details. One noteworthy point is that the device has support for WiFi - this was a deciding factor in my choice of device. Being...

Many of you have asked me by email when ISA 2006 will be available for production use. ISA 2006 is due to hit the Microsoft universal price list on 1st Sept 2006 It will also be available for download by TechNet Plus subscribers in the next few...

James wrote a great introduction to Talking Microsoft and I'm glad to see that folk out there in IT Pro land are starting to talk about this new resource which takes you behind the scenes at Microsoft Ltd. Our aim is to connect you to the people that...

Information Security is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge as it's a Perpetual task! Many people seem to believe that buying some product or security service that they can obviate their responsibility. In some cases products and services can help but...

It's a significant improvement over the last Community Technology Preview (CTP) - i.e. that which is available to MSDN & TechNet subscribers. It's not had the same level of testing hence it's not suitable for you to play with and we're getting really...

Full details of this month's security update can be found here . It's a significant update as it includes updates to address nine critical vulnerabilities and three important vulnerabilities. Ten of the vulnerabilities are for Microsoft Windows, two...

Eileen beat me to it in posting about the upcoming Girl Geek Dinner. I was glad she mentioned it as I hadn't realised there was one coming up. I've thoroughly enjoyed joining previous Girl Geek Dinners as there are always so many interesting people there...

Thanks to James for boldly inviting Microsoft Ltd's new Managing Director to be our guinea pig for the first in a series of interviews titled " Talking Microsoft ". We've been looking for interesting alternative ways to share information with you ...

It's been a long time coming but Windows Vista is nearly ready for Prime Time. Steve Horne's posted a machinima short film (2:30 minutes duration) that pokes fun at the time it's taken to design and build Windows Vista - it's titled " Hunting Vista...

Windows Vista provides the means for extensive Parental Controls governing (on a per user basis) WHEN accounts can log on, what applications can be run, what type of content can be viewed and which web sites can be visited. You can choose to provide a...

Microsoft are hosting an entire track giving technical insight and encouraging feedback at the Blackhat conference . For those of you who (like me) aren't able to go to Las Vegas for the conference it's worth watching out for both webcasts and the events...

There's an interesting podcast (of approx 20 mins duration) hosted by Bill Hilf where Tim O'Reilly discusses where OpenSource is going and how Open Access to data is of principle importance. Tim talks about how the best applications are those that get...

Click on the image below or here to listen to a recent podcast where some chap from Microsoft speaks his mind about security posture and how to be proactive. The authors of the podcast (Rich and Dave) share their eclectic style and some rather specialist...