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Thursday, April 17, 2008 4:33 AM

Is Kai Axford Speaking at TechEd 2008?

The short answer is YES! However, I'm not going to be confined to a single breakout room like I was last year. (ESPNism: " You cannot stop him, you can only hope to contain him .") If you remember, we had such a huge amount of folks wanting to get into
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Friday, April 11, 2008 12:53 AM

RSA 2008 - Day 3: Breakfast with the MSAT and Cruising the Expo

Who Doesn't Like Breakfast? Sort of a slow day here at RSA today. My guess is that all those parties sort of took their toll on the majority of the attendees. I got up early to catch up on some schoolwork (yes....the quest for the elusive MBA continues,
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 11:30 PM

RSA 2008 - Day 1: Craig Mundie and Omarosa

New Direction I got up nice and early and managed to drag myself over to the convention, to be sure I wouldn't miss Craig Mundie's keynote where he announced the new End-to-End Trust vision we've been hearing about internally for a few weeks. Craig delivered
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 8:48 PM

The End to End Trust Vision: Microsoft's Framing of the Discussion and Call for Dialog Around Security

You've been sitting around asking yourself, " Okay okay...I heard Bill Gates announce the whole 'trustworthy computing' concept back in 2002... What's next Microsoft? How do we solve the future security problems as an industry?" As you know, the Internet
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:29 PM

Why Windows Vista is Better than Your O/S

Today is a big day for Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing team! It's the release of the Windows Vista One Year Vulnerability Report composed by my good friend and teammate, Jeff Jones . First let me just put to rest any kind " of course it's favorable...it's
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:37 PM

Not your Mama's Webcasts: Kai does the Defense in Depth Webcast Series

Hopefully you were able to join me for a terrific two weeks of webcasts!! In 8 sessions we covered every layer of the security model known as "defense in depth". For those of you who missed out on the great fun we had, here's a way to go and check out
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:09 PM

Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part IX) - Oldies, but Goodies

Well....I received an absolutely unexpected and pleasure of an email from one of the excellent speakers over at the The Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies about my blog posts! I'm not sure they were reading or simply scanning for references
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Monday, January 07, 2008 3:03 PM

A New Life of 150 inches: How Long 'til Keith Combs Has One?

A good buddy of mine and fellow Texan runs this little 'ol blog, which is one of the Top 5 blogs hosted on TechNet. His name is Keith Combs and he, like his blahg , is a pretty amazing technical guru. When it came time to research the laptop I'm carrying
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Monday, January 07, 2008 11:30 AM

Happy and Secure New Year!

I have returned! As many of you are aware, I travel extensively for my job and I was literally on the road for almost 10 straight weeks the latter part of 2007. Los Angeles. New York. Buenos Aires (x2). London. Redmond. Mexico City. Washington D.C. Toronto.
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 5:22 PM

TechNet Radio: Physical Security at Microsoft

This is a pretty interesting podcast that I had the privilege to conduct a few weeks ago. I had the chance to go see Microsoft's Security Operations Center (SOC) and talk to Johnny Walker, CPP (Certified Protection Professional), the guy who leads the
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 5:08 PM

Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part VIII) - Phone Home + The Power of the PMP!

" Hey IT Guy , c heck out my cool phone! I can use it as a modem for my laptop! " Ever heard that from one of those end users? I'm sure you have. Sounds much better than " Check out my cool wireless bridge I've been using to exfil sensitive data out of
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Friday, November 16, 2007 4:36 PM

Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part VII) - Moving Data Out of Your Organization

Well, if you've been following along...we talked about who the insiders are and the metrics behind economic espionage. We've discussed why they do it and how they get the data. But I know this probably hasn't been very technical for most of you. Today
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Monday, November 05, 2007 1:02 PM

Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part V)

I've done a lot of work in the past few weeks trying to get you to truly understand the person we've dubbed "The Insider". We've discussed who they are, and why they do what they do. Today I'm going to be looking at exactly what it is these insiders are
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Friday, November 02, 2007 1:16 AM

Microsoft IT Security and Data Leakage: TechNet Radio Edition

I've chatted with our internal MSIT data leakage expert, Olav Opedal in private as I've put together my session on Insider Threat. Recently I had the opportunity to interview Olav a few weeks ago for a public TechNet Radio session, titled " How Microsoft
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:20 PM

Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part IV)

After traveling the past 4 weeks non-stop, with barely enough time to figure out what time zone I'm actually in....I'm back with another installment of Insider Threat. Today we'll discuss the motivators for why this is happening. Let's get started! "Why
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