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February 2006 - Posts

UK Security Summit 2006 - Slides to be posted soon....

We will be posting all of the slides from todays UK Security Summit to http://www.microsoft.com/uk/security/securitysummit06 over the next few days. When we get the content in its final form from the speakers we will update. If you had any feedback on Read More...
Posted Monday, February 27, 2006 11:56 PM by fredbaum | 2 Comments

Security Architects can learn from Doctors...

Today we had our UK Security Summit 2006. One of the themes that got much attention from the audience and discussion was one of root causes versus symptoms. I am a huge fan of fixing a problem at its root, rather than band-aiding it. But sometimes we Read More...
Posted Monday, February 27, 2006 3:13 PM by fredbaum | 0 Comments

Microsoft Events Content Process - Security - Do you have any Ideas ?

I found this whilst looking through colleagues blogs. http://blogs.technet.com/sanger - a very comprehensive guide on the process and decision making that happens in large scale Microsoft events. Its written by the guy (Kevin Sangwell, an MS guy worh Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 26, 2006 8:55 AM by fredbaum | 0 Comments

Beware the Firewall Salesman....Inside the Security Business

Recently at a customer I was very surprised when they showed the architecture team their new and uber cool security architecture design that 20 days of consulting (10 of which were free from the "reseller") gave them. Slight Techy Bit - Skip if you dont Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 25, 2006 1:59 PM by fredbaum | 1 Comments

Microsoft UK Security Summit 2006 - Feb 20th

We have today opened the last few registrations for the public to come to our security and executive issues summit 2006 - Feb 20th - Monday. In this event we have some great speakers from the UK Microsoft Security Community and from Microsoft Corporate. Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 23, 2006 4:17 PM by fredbaum | 0 Comments

Security and Organised Crime Moving in.... Will ITSEC Nerd stop the Mafia ?

From what I see in law enforcement discussions it is that organised crime elements are now turning away from “hard crimes” like drugs, etc, and moving into “softer” light collar crimes. Articles on the web on 0 day exploits being sold on the web are good Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:10 PM by fredbaum | 2 Comments

First Post - the arguments on Client Firewalls

I have been challenged whilst working at Microsoft to up my thinking about security, architecture, and infrastructure. When I joined (around 5 years ago) I thought like a lot of IT Pros that I knew a relatively good amount about Windows and Microsoft Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 23, 2006 1:33 PM by fredbaum | 0 Comments
 
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