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Focus on your business, not IT Security

Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 4:42 PM by James Senior
The Smart Business Newsletter is full of useful tidbits this month!  I've been having internal conversations with people at Microsoft arguing that small businesses can have mature IT practices and fit on the IO model - in addition to using Small Read More...
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Windows Server 2008 Security Guide

Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 6:43 PM by James Senior
The Windows Server 2008 Security Guide is now out - essential reading this.  Go download. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc264463.aspx Read More...
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Video demo of NAP + Forefront

Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:31 AM by James Senior
Spotted this little gem on the Enterprise Networking Group at Microsoft which shows off the combined power of Windows Server 2008's NAP (Network Access Protection) and Forefront Client Security - very nice!  Get more details here: http://blogs.technet.com/nap/archive/2008/02/22/exclusive-nap-forefront-client-security-fcs.aspx Read More...
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Forefront for Exchange on SBS 2003

Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 3:19 PM by James Senior
I received a question today on whether you can run Forefront for Exhchange on SBS 2003.  Turns out it's tested: “Whilst Microsoft haven’t yet made any public statements about the Forefront server Products – we can confirm that Microsoft Read More...
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Why Management and Security is important for partners and why Microsoft is about to change the game

Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:58 PM by James Senior
I've been doing a little light reading on my flight to Edinburgh this afternoon.  I'm in Scotland for meetings with Partners over the next couple of days to talk about Core IO and these two whitepapers are very pertinent to those discussions. The Read More...
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Microsoft Forefront Partner Technical Airlift

Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2008 11:22 AM by James Senior
Does your organization design, deploy, customize, or support security solutions for business customers? Are you looking for security technologies that can provide comprehensive protection, simplified administration, and efficient integration with your Read More...
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Forefront Edge and System Center VPC for download

Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 2:32 PM by James Senior
Matt passed this link on to me today and thought it might be useful to help understand and demonstrate the capabilities in our Edge security offering.  In particular Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG) which provides secure access to company applications Read More...
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Stop hackers from getting on your Wireless network

Posted Thursday, November 15, 2007 12:05 AM by James Senior
In the UK we have this scheme called Get Safe Online that encourages people to take care of their security and privacy on the internet.  Microsoft is one of the founding partners and some of the features in Windows Vista like Network Awareness goes Read More...
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Apple Leopard insecure?

Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 4:49 PM by James Senior
A firewall that is off by default? No granularity to the user settings? Sounds like Leopard might not be as secure as people like to band around . We've been making security part of the development methodology for years now and the fruits of our labour Read More...
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Forefront Security 3 day Technical Bootcamp

Posted Tuesday, October 09, 2007 10:59 AM by James Senior
Can you tell I'm going through my training emails at the moment? :-) Next up is the 3 day technical bootcamp for Forefront Security! Here's the scoop With Microsoft’s best-in-class Forefront Security products, you’re in control of the new customer opportunities Read More...
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Microsoft Security Product Training for Partners

Posted Tuesday, October 09, 2007 10:27 AM by James Senior
We've got some plans afoot for LAR and Disti Partners regarding Security training and getting your sales staff skilled up on our products like Forefront. These training sessions are organised by role so find the appropriate role and then do the training. Read More...
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Vista's 6 month security check-up: Bill Gates' push on security pays off

Posted Friday, June 22, 2007 1:15 PM by James Senior
Five years ago Bill Gates launched the " Trustworthy Computing Initiative " which put secure, private and reliable computing as one of the fundamental tenants of software development at Microsoft. Everything that is developed at Microsoft is exposed to Read More...
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How to spot a spoofed website

Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:22 AM by James Senior
You know those emails you get from banks asking you to visit their website to confirm your details? Those are phishing emails - one half of the ploy to alleviate you of your identity. The second half of the ploy which comes in the form of a spoof website, Read More...
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Can I customise UAC?

Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 3:54 PM by James Senior
I had some interesting questions today from customers about the level of customization an IT guy can do regarding which areas of functionality are protected by UAC. I.e. if I don't want the Firewall protected by UAC can I change a setting in Group Policy? Read More...
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Security in Silverlight

Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:46 PM by James Senior
Following the announcement at Mix a few weeks back, one of the questions on many people's lips is (as with any cool technology) what are the implications, who better to explain about this than the .NET security team? One of the interesting email newsletters Read More...
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