There's a great article on MSDN titled simply Network Access Protection which explains how you can integrate your application with Microsoft's Network Access Protection(NAP). Why would you want to do this? Well NAP is a core networking feature of Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista and Windows XP Service...

There are plenty to choose from including the following: Read Only Domain Controller BitLocker on the server Active Directory Rights Management Active Directory Certificate Services Integrated firewall with IPSec task based interface Architectural improvements Increased scope...

Dave Northey has posted a screencast on TechNet Edge showing how to configure IIS 7 to host PHP - there's another good one on Channel9 by Dunnry . Our aim is for Windows Server 2008's IIS 7 to be the preferred platform for hosting PHP and to that end the development team have architected the new web...

I discussed this very topic with several people whilst @ LUGRadioLive 2007 earlier this year - I'm glad to say that the testing is complete and you can save time when securing a mixed LINUX and Microsoft environment by reading the details for yourself. Q)WHY use IPSec? A) IPsec provides the means...

The Windows Live Search blog announced moments ago that the source code to Tafita has been released to Codeplex meaning that "any developer can download, modify, and resell the code (see MS-PL License for all the details)." Tafita is a favourite of Eileen's as it provides a visual way to view Internet...

It was wonderful to receive such an enthusiastic welcome at the University of Glamorgan yesterday. It's VERY rare that I get chance to speak at Universities. I thoroughly enjoyed lecturing students on the wonders of information security. The room was packed and questions abounded. The audience didn...

Redhat provided every delegate to LUGRadioLive with either a track suit top or t-shirt hence many people were sporting RedHat attire both at dinner on Saturday evening and on Sunday. In my earlier post about LUGRadioLive I mentioned that I'd accepted a challenge...it was for me to wear a RedHat t-shirt...

Thanks to everyone who made me so welcome at last weekend's LUGRadio Live - it's the UK's largest LINUX User Group get together with hundreds of enthusiastic geeks spending the weekend sharing their technical expertise. There are some excellent write ups including... a great description of what...