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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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Monday, April 14, 2008 5:19 PM

RSA 2008 - Day Last: Underground Online Crime

Well, I'm sorry for the delay in posting, but I didn't get home until after 10:30PM on Friday night, but American Airlines did get me home and given the issues with the MD-80s recently, I'm just happy to have made it. Even got bumped to First Class which
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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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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 11:51 PM

RSA 2008 - Day 2: Windows vs. Linux, PLUS Insider Threat Experts, and The Parties

Day 2. I'm a but wore out since I was up into the wee hours trying to get my new video blogging mess figured out. The process that I thought would be (encoding and uploading).....wasn't. But the part that I thought would be easy (quality of the HD stream).....was.
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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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Monday, March 31, 2008 4:42 PM

Secure Code through the Eyes of an IT Pro

I'm not Michael Howard . My software development background consisted of struggling through my two C++ classes in my undergraduate MIS program. Sure, I managed to convince my professors that I knew what a virtual function was and how it all worked, but
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 5:18 PM

Book of the Month Club: Influence: Science and Practice, by Robert Cialdini

I've been meaning to get back to the Book O' The Month club idea for awhile. My buddy Matt started the idea, and I'm glomming on, since I think it's a good one. Mitnick Recommended The book I just finished is entitled " Influence: Science and Practice
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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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Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:20 PM

It Was A Good Run....

Well....as you can imagine it has taken me some time to get over the fact that my beloved Green Bay Packers football season has come to an end. I appreciate all the emails, text messages, and phone calls concerning my well being. Contrary to many reports,
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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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Monday, January 14, 2008 9:21 AM

Green Bay Packers Headed to NFC Championship Game at Lambeau Field!!!

'nuff said....life is good. (Yes, the first 4 minutes of the game I was ready to jump off the roof, but I tried to exhibit a bit of patience and it paid off.) This morning as I was checking the local morning news online...I saw this comment on a blog:
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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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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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