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Completing 5 days of Forefront Protection Suite (Stirling) Training

Posted Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:12 AM by davidzi
Last week I came out to Redmond for 5 days of training on the Forefront Protection Suite, formerly Forefront codenamed “Stirling”. The final name was announced at the Worldwide Partner Conference : Forefront codename “Stirling” - the next generation of Read More...
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New Microsoft Security Site for Governments

Posted Monday, July 06, 2009 5:44 PM by davidzi
A new Security section has been added to the government site on Microsoft.com. The site consolidates a number of relevant tools, solutions, case studies, and links relevant to Public Sector organizations. Several of the solutions call for specific mentions Read More...
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Threat Modeling Guide for IT Infrastructure

Posted Monday, June 22, 2009 7:41 PM by davidzi
Over on the Solution Accelerators Security Blog is a post and link to the IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling Guide . From the guide: The IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling Guide provides an easy-to-understand method for developing threat models that can Read More...
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Networking and Remote Desktop Technical Resources

Posted Friday, June 12, 2009 1:15 PM by davidzi
The links below lead to a series of technical whitepapers on DirectAccess, BranchCache, and Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2. Networking Resources: DirectAccess and BranchCache Remote Desktop Resources: Kerberos, User Profiles, RemoteApp Read More...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 to RTM in July!

Posted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 7:09 PM by davidzi
The Windows Server Division blog announced that Windows Server 2008 R2 is tracking with Windows 7 and both are planned to RTM in the second half of July with General Availability on Oct 22! That RTM date is earlier than I thought it would be, I was thinking Read More...
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Microsoft SDL: Get it to go

Posted Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:02 PM by davidzi
Today Microsoft made available the Microsoft SDL Process Template . This was announced over on the SDL Blog . Roger has some comments on it as well. The SDL Process Template is a free downloadable template for Visual Studio Team System that integrates Read More...
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IIS Gaining Rapidly on Apache

Posted Tuesday, August 07, 2007 7:48 AM by davidzi
I hadn't taken note of the market share numbers in a while but check out the results from the most recent Netcraft survey . They state the following: "Microsoft continues to increase its web server market share, adding 2.6 million sites this month as Read More...
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Microsoft and Juniper Announce NAP Interoperability

Posted Monday, May 21, 2007 3:35 PM by davidzi
From this press release : "Juniper Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced the companies are working together to provide customers and partners with open standards-based interoperability between Juniper Networks Read More...
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The First International Cyberwar?

Posted Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:35 AM by davidzi
The Guardian is reporting that "A three-week wave of massive cyber-attacks on the small Baltic country of Estonia, the first known incidence of such an assault on a state, is causing alarm across the western alliance, with Nato urgently examining the Read More...
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Changes to the Security Bulletin Advanced Notification Service

Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 8:07 PM by davidzi
The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) announced some changes to the Advanced Notification Service (ANS) which is basically a service anyone can subscribe to which provides notice on Thursday the week before each month's Tuesday security bulletin Read More...
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Microsoft Security Intelligence Report

Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:40 AM by davidzi
This report is a very interesting read. It discusses recent trends and data collected around viruses, malware, exploits, etc. Some of the conclusions: "Disclosed vulnerabilities for 2006 rose 41 percent over the previous year, continuing an upward trend Read More...
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Jim Allchin on Security Features vs Convenience

Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:30 AM by davidzi
Jim Allchin has a great post over on the Vista Team's blog about the tradeoffs and choices made in terms of all the new Vista security features such as User Account Control (UAC) and Data Execution Prevention (DEP). He really drills into the importance Read More...
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