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Ahn-young-ha-seh-yo & Kon-ni-chi-wa

Handle: Cap'n Steve IRL: Steve Adegbite Rank: Senior Security Program Manager Lead Likes: Reverse Engineering an obscene amount of code and ripping it up on a snowboard Dislikes: Not much but if you hear me growl…run Hi! It's been a while since I've had Read More...

Posted Monday, November 23, 2009 4:07 PM by msrcecostrat | (Comments Off)

Filed under: EcoStrat, Community-based Defense, Security Conference Engagement, Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), Security Ecosystem, MSRC, Conficker, FIRST, Watering Hole, Attack, Malicious Software (Malware), MSRC Ecosystem Strategy, Responsible Disclosure , Risk Assessment, Security Engineering, Security Tools, Security Intelligence Report, Security Research

Announcing BlueHat v9: Through the Looking Glass

BlueHat v9 will take place from October 21 to 23 at the Microsoft campus in Redmond. Last year, we experimented with a day dedicated to attacks and a day dedicated to SDL security mitigations. This year, we will give you the best content out there… we Read More...

Posted Monday, September 14, 2009 10:14 AM by msrcecostrat | (Comments Off)

Filed under: EcoStrat, Community-based Defense, Security Conference Engagement, BlueHat Security Briefings, Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), Security Ecosystem, Attack, Malicious Software (Malware), Microsoft Windows, MSRC Ecosystem Strategy, Responsible Disclosure , Risk Assessment, Security Engineering, Security Tools, Exploitability, Mitigations, Security Research

Threat Complexity Requires New Levels of Collaboration

When complex security issues that affect multiple vendors arise, calling them “challenging” is an understatement. We created the Microsoft Vulnerability Research Program (MSVR) to meet those challenges, learn from those experiences and strengthen the Read More...

Posted Monday, July 27, 2009 11:43 PM by msrcecostrat | (Comments Off)

Filed under: EcoStrat, Community-based Defense, Black Hat, Microsoft Vulnerability Research (MSVR), Security Ecosystem, MSRC Ecosystem Strategy, Responsible Disclosure , Security Assurance, Security Research

A Brussels retrospective from Oahu

Handle: Security Blanki IRL: Sarah Blankinship Rank: Senior Security Strategist Lead Likes: Vuln wrangling, teams of rivals, global climate change - the hotter the better Dislikes: Slack jawed gawkers (girls are geeks too!), customers @ risk, egos Aloha Read More...

Posted Friday, June 12, 2009 8:31 AM by msrcecostrat | (Comments Off)

Filed under: EcoStrat, Community-based Defense, Security Conference Engagement, BlueHat Security Briefings, Security Ecosystem, Attack, MSRC Ecosystem Strategy, Defense-in-depth

Announcing the BlueHat Security Forum: EU Edition

Handle: C-Lizzle IRL: Celene Temkin Rank: Program Manager 2 & BlueHat Project Manager Likes: Culinary warfare, BlueHat hackers and responsible disclosure Dislikes: Acts of hubris, MySpace, orange mocha Frappaccinos! Hey folks! I know this is typically Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 9:30 AM by msrcecostrat | 1 Comments

Filed under: EcoStrat, Community-based Defense, Security Conference Engagement, BlueHat Security Briefings, Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), Security Ecosystem, MSRC, Watering Hole, Attack, Malicious Software (Malware), MSRC Ecosystem Strategy, Security Research

Hack in the Box, and beyond…

Handle: EcoStrat's All-Stars IRL: TwC Security All-Star Guest Bloggers Likes: Security, Vulnerability Research & Science, Defense and Responsible Disclosure Dislikes: 0-day, FUD Marhaban! Maarten Van Horenbeeck here from the Microsoft Security Response Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:00 AM by msrcecostrat | (Comments Off)

Filed under: EcoStrat, Security Conference Engagement, BlueHat Security Briefings, Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), Security Ecosystem, MSRC, Watering Hole, Security Engineering, Security Tools

Capt I.M. Hardened OS-Microsoft

Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 12:00 PM by msrcecostrat | (Comments Off)

Filed under: EcoStrat, Security Conference Engagement, Security Ecosystem, MSRC Ecosystem Strategy, Defense-in-depth

SOURCE, Not Your Usual Boston Tea Party

I recently returned from the second iteration of the SOURCE Boston computer security conference, and I must say, it was both an intimate conference of less than 250 folks and a high-caliber gathering. As with other conferences that the Microsoft Security Read More...

Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 12:02 PM by msrcecostrat | 1 Comments

Filed under: EcoStrat, Security Conference Engagement, Security Ecosystem, MSRC

CanSecWest: Caution, Community at Play

CanSecWest , in beautiful Vancouver BC, is one of my favorite conferences each year. It’s a cozy little security con that brings together security researchers from all parts of the security ecosystem. Like a PhNeutral or a BlueHat , one never quite knows Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 1:20 PM by msrcecostrat | 5 Comments

Filed under: EcoStrat, Security Conference Engagement, BlueHat Security Briefings, Security Ecosystem, Patch, MSRC, CanSecWest

Chills and Thrills at FIRST

Sveika! Hey Steve here, been a while since I posted on the EcoStrat blog. With all the security events that happened during the latter half of 2008, I have been very focused on working with the security update releases and Microsoft Active Protections Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009 6:00 AM by msrcecostrat | (Comments Off)

Filed under: EcoStrat, Community-based Defense, Black Hat, Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP), Security Conference Engagement, MS08-067, Security Ecosystem, Security Advisory, MSRC, MMPC, Conficker, CanSecWest, FIRST, Watering Hole

New Year, New Security Foo

Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 9:04 AM by msrcecostrat | (Comments Off)

Filed under: EcoStrat, Security Conference Engagement, Security Ecosystem, China, MS08-078, Patch

Observations from the EcoStrat-isphere

Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:24 AM by msrcecostrat | 1 Comments

Filed under: EcoStrat, BlueHat Security Briefings, Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), Security Ecosystem

Leaving Las Vegas: A Black Hat Salute

Handle: The Crushman IRL: Andrew Cushman Rank: Security Director Likes: Cranberry juice (thanks Jay!) Dislikes: Super helpful hotel desk clerks (thanks Raoul?) What can I say? Once again, Black Hat did not disappoint. And that’s not just post-party speak. Read More...

Posted Friday, August 08, 2008 10:00 AM by msrcecostrat | (Comments Off)

Filed under: EcoStrat, Black Hat, Exploitability Index, Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP), Microsoft Vulnerability Research (MSVR)

Welcome to the new MSRC Ecosystem Strategy (EcoStrat) Team Blog

Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 9:50 AM by msrcecostrat | 1 Comments

Filed under: EcoStrat