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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 3:07 PM

Is Cloud Computing Really Risk Transference?

The current buzz in the technology industry is all about this idea of Cloud Computing. It goes by many many names but we’ll just stick with this one to eliminate confusion. Sure, it’s a great idea and vendors are talking about “moving your data to the
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Friday, February 06, 2009 1:34 PM

Hyper-V Security Guide goes Beta

Well, I told everyone last year on my Virtualization Security Tour that this thing was coming out soon! Well, we released a Beta of the document on our Beta site , which you should join if you haven’t already. One of my jobs is to help do technical review
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Monday, September 15, 2008 7:00 AM

Big Bang Machine Hacked!

Well, apparently no one planned any information security with the super collider. I love the quote from this guy who is obviously not a security guy “ We don’t know who they were but there seems to be no harm done. ” Right. No harm done. We’re sorta sure.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 5:42 AM

The Last Episode on Physical Security!

This wraps up the 4-part series where I discuss physical security at Microsoft with one of the guys who keeps you safe when you visit Redmond or any other of the many Microsoft campuses around the world. Thanks Johnny for making us all feel safe when
Posted by kai axford | 2 Comments
Tuesday, September 09, 2008 11:14 AM

Well, maybe I’ll get a great refund in in 2009

Apparently the IRS just realized that they had about 1,800 unauthorized web servers attached to their corporate network !!! Now I’m glad to hear that their CIO is working to get them removed, but sounds to me this is a great opportunity for them to implement
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008 5:49 AM

Part Three of Four as We Chat About Physical Security

UPDATE : I got your emails about there being a problem with this Silverlight video (thanks Doug!), so I re-rendered and have re-posted the video. Nothing stinks worse than having the movie go out in mid-series! OH YES! I actually had the privilege yesterday
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Monday, September 08, 2008 5:45 AM

The Security Show: Episode 3 “Gates, Guards and Guns”

More of my sitdown with Johnny Walker who helps run our Microsoft Global Security Operations Center. When we talk about physical security, as IT Pros, we’re typically talking about securing the datacenters and the boxes themselves. Johnny also has to
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 6:03 PM

You got to love convergence! The Security Show: Episode 3 – Gates, Guards, and Guns

In Episode 3 of the popular Security Show, we sit down with Johnny Walker who is a Group Program Manager with Microsoft Global Security Operations Center (GSOC). We’ve done a podcast on TechNet Radio with Johnny in the past, but this time we get into
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 1:32 PM

NEWS: ISA Server and Forefront TMG will be supported on hardware virtualization!

Supported Virtualized Security Solutions? Yeah….We Got That! We’ve gotten many requests for this and today we’re announcing that ISA Server and Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) will now be supported on hardware virtualization. This means that
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Friday, August 22, 2008 6:52 AM

The Security Show: Episode Two – Stopping James Bond (Part IV)

This is the last of Episode Two and I hope everyone has been enjoying this interesting session with the FBI. In this final session, we wrapup and get a few comments from the audience. Good stuff.   Next time, I’ll be posting Episode 3 titled “Gate,
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:21 AM

The Security Show: Episode Two – Stopping James Bond (Part III)

I hope this is waking some folks up with regards to the huge issue that insider threat poses within your own company. We discuss some of the common characteristics that these people show and how we identify them. What are some of the triggers that make
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008 7:11 AM

The Security Show: Episode Two – Stopping James Bond (Part II)

In this part, we get some good advice from the FBI on how to have that talk with your executives who like to travel out of the country and don’t really understand the risk that they assume when they carry that laptop, cell phone, or other electronic device
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 4:01 PM

The Security Show: Episode Two – Stopping James Bond (Part I)

I got it to work! I had some issues with the video playback in Silverlight after it came out of post-production in Sony Vegas. I really wish there was an easy way for Expressions Encoder to sort of “save your profile” so you wouldn’t have to go and tweak
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Monday, July 21, 2008 2:23 PM

Back from vacation!

Sorry for the long delay, but I’ve been on vacation and my wife is pretty adamant about me not checking email, posting blog entries, etc. I don’t think I need a break, but apparently I was wrong, so I took about 8 days of vacation. Of course, there are
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Monday, July 07, 2008 5:57 PM

Meet The Feds: Part 3…..Understanding the Coming Threats

This is the last 10 minutes of Day 1 at TechEd 2008 for Agent Lynd and I. In this wrapup, Agent Lynd covers some of the trends in the security landscape and some of the things that IT Pros need to be to be watching for going forward. Next time I’ll load
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