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Download Hyper-V RTM for WIndows server 2008

I converted my office fileserver to Windows Server 2008 (WS2008) a while back and I've never been happier - WS2008 is my favorite product ever. Nicely modular, pretty much everything turned off by default and some great tools for enabling just the components Read More...
Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 1:02 AM by jrjones | 0 Comments

Download: Server Core Potential Security Benefit

With Windows Server 2008, the Microsoft Windows Server team introduced a new installation option –Server Core. Server Core is a “minimal install” option of Windows Server that excludes much of the GUI and many applications – such as Internet Explorer Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 12, 2008 5:16 PM by jrjones | 10 Comments
Attachment(s): svr-core-security.pdf

Q1 2008 - Client OS Vulnerability Scorecard

This paper is a compilation of vulnerability data for client operating systems for the first 3 month, January through March, of 2008. Vulnerabilities and fixes for the following products are discussed: Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows XP SP2 Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:04 AM by jrjones | 78 Comments
Attachment(s): q108-client-scorecard.pdf

Windows Vista vs Windows XP SP2 Vulnerability Report 2007

In the wake of my Windows Vista One Year Vulnerability Report , I have received many questions regarding the current vulnerability record of Windows Vista as compares with Windows XP SP2. This short paper is a compilation of vulnerability data for Microsoft Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:50 PM by jrjones | 9 Comments
Attachment(s): 2007-vista-vs-xp.pdf

UAC, an Excellent Description and Discussion by Crispin Cowan

I was excited when Dr. Crispin Cowan joined the company a while back - what security person wouldn't be! As one of the key drivers behind StackGuard , Linux Security Modules and co-founder of Immunix, which produced AppArmor - few people are as qualified Read More...
Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 11:07 PM by jrjones | 1 Comments

Server Launch : Security Highlights

Today is Launch Day for 3 big products from Microsoft - Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. Click on the image to learn more general information and participate in the virtual launch. I want to briefly salute some of the security Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 2:12 PM by jrjones | 1 Comments

Microsoft Security Intelligence Report - 1st Half 2007

The third volume of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) is now available for download at: www.microsoft.com/sir - this link will take you to a summary portal that has links to the downloadable document, upcoming webcasts about the SIR results, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2007 5:35 PM by jrjones | 1 Comments

July 2007 - Operating System Vulnerability Scorecard

Summer and work travel have really had an impact and I've missed a couple of months of scorecards, so last weekend, I decided to dig in and catch up to July. I hit a few road bumps: Sun changed their Security Alerts web site, making it a bit more challenging. Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 16, 2007 11:47 PM by jrjones | 12 Comments

Windows Vista - 6-Month Vulnerability Study

I was nudged by some colleagues this week, telling me that some folks may only be reading my technet blog, but that I hadn't been doing a great job of cross-posting some things. Six months is a much more interesting time frame than the previous Windows Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:34 PM by jrjones | 1 Comments

2006 Client OS Days of Risk

As a follow-up to my previous Days-of-risk in 2006 : Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows , where I compare Microsoft, Red Hat, Novell SUSE, Apple Mac OS X and Sun Solaris, I've also completed a look at the latest client products that were available for Read More...
Posted Monday, June 18, 2007 9:19 PM by jrjones | 3 Comments

2006 Days of Risk Comparison

Among the other metrics that I track, I also periodically look at days-of-risk, or the average amount of time that customers are exposed to public vulnerabilities before a vendor provides a patch. You can take a look at the full findings on Days-of-risk Read More...
Posted Friday, June 15, 2007 12:07 PM by jrjones | 2 Comments

Building My Windows Vista Media Center (VMC) - Part 2 - The Tuner

You can read the first part of this blog series at Building My Windows Vista Media Center - Part 1 - The System , where I talk about what hardware and software I selected for my home Vista Media Center, which I will refer to as VMC from now on. This entry Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 12:42 AM by jrjones | 3 Comments

Windows XP vs Windows Vista Security

So, a couple of days ago, I happened upon the tantalizing headline of Review: Vista, XP Users Equally At Peril To Viruses, Exploits. What!? As you can imagine, the headline sucked me in and I had to read it. Frankly, the article as well as the scientific Read More...
Posted Friday, June 01, 2007 10:21 PM by jrjones | 3 Comments

Mr. Jones Goes to TechEd

TechEd 2007 is coming next week and I am excited to have two sessions this year. If you sometimes find the information I post on the blog here interesting, then I think you'll enjoy these sessions. In any case, stop by and say hi. MONDAY - SEC208 - Jeff Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 29, 2007 7:39 PM by jrjones | 1 Comments

Background and Overview for Days-of-Risk

I just published a Basic Guide to Days of Risk over on my CSO Magazine Blog , in preparation for a new quarterly days-of-risk study I'm going to start publishing. If you don't have a good understanding of the days-of-risk metrics, the post will give you Read More...
Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 11:52 PM by jrjones | 5 Comments
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