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The other day an office mate asked, "Do you twitter?" Sorting through the various snarky remarks that immediately popped to mind, I replied that I didn't think anyone would find my routine bits all that interesting. He suggested otherwise: that Read More...
Posted 26 June 08 10:52 by Steve Riley | 1 Comments   
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Directly connect to your corpnet with IPsec and IPv6
Contrary to popular belief, the rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. Well, ok, no actual rumors, but hey, one can dream, huh? My spring calendar was full of events in Asia and Australia, then TechEd US seemed to suddenly appear out of nowhere! Read More...
Posted 25 June 08 01:55 by Steve Riley | 16 Comments   
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Do you need RMS/IRM in Office for Macintosh?
Please let me know if this is a feature you'd be interested in. We're looking to build the business case to develop it, and the best way to do that is for you, our customers, to let us know. Also, if any of you want to deploy RMS now but can't because Read More...
Posted 23 April 08 03:34 by Steve Riley | 11 Comments   
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Throw away your digital picture frames
Surely time itself has warped and it's suddenly April 1st. Come on, if you read the following, wouldn't you first think it was a hoax, as did I? Virus from China, the gift that keeps on giving An insidious computer virus recently discovered on digital Read More...
Posted 18 February 08 07:36 by Steve Riley | 4 Comments   
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Supporting your family, friends, and neighbors
By Steve Riley Senior Security Strategist Trustworthy Computing Group, Microsoft Corporation (originally published at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/secmgmt/sm0208.mspx ) I’ve met thousands of IT pros during my years speaking at conferences Read More...
Posted 13 February 08 09:45 by Steve Riley | 4 Comments   
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Plan now to eliminate "power users" from your domains
I've seen some conversations lately about the Power Users group -- how powerful is it, really, and why did we remove the group from Windows Vista? That group had rights install software and drivers. And if you can install software and drivers, then you Read More...
Posted 11 February 08 10:03 by Steve Riley | 1 Comments   
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Who should do your security audits? Or, how do you organize the security department?
An interesting question came up today. The group responsible for configuring and maintaining the firewalls at a customer also believes that they should be the only ones to audit their configurations. Others in the security department are uneasy with this, Read More...
Posted 07 February 08 02:25 by Steve Riley | 2 Comments   
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Videos of some of my presentations
TechNet Spotlight features videos of many presentations from our TechEd conferences. Here are some of mine. It's 11:00 PM, do you know where your data is? IT Forum: TechEd Europe, November 2007 The fortified data center in your future TechEd US, June Read More...
Posted 05 February 08 10:14 by Steve Riley | 1 Comments   
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NAP case study published
Another new resource for you... I know from my time with customers in meetings and at events that NAP is something you're all very interested in. You're also being a bit cautious, waiting to see how the market matures, and hoping to learn how some customers Read More...
Posted 01 February 08 03:50 by Steve Riley | 1 Comments   
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Microsoft IPsec diagnostic tool
IPsec is a wonderful technology for identifying computers and securing the exchange of data between them. I've written and spoken extensively about in the past. It is, however, a bit of a challenge to configure, especially if you're newly learning about Read More...
Posted 01 February 08 03:39 by Steve Riley | 2 Comments   
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FanBox: the latest in password scams
Looks like spammers have found yet another way to worm (ha ha) themselves into the computers of the unsuspecting. In my junk email folder this morning, I saw this message: From: Question It [mailto:question_it@fanboxapps.com] Sent: Monday, January 07, Read More...
Posted 07 January 08 10:09 by Steve Riley | 4 Comments   
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Changing the SSL cipher order in Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista
Recently, the question of using AES for SSL has come up in the newsgroups and at some conferences. When IE makes an HTTPS connection to a web server, it offers a list of cipher supported cipher suites. The server then selects the first one from the list Read More...
Posted 06 November 07 09:37 by Steve Riley | 12 Comments   
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More on Autorun
Last month, in my post " Autorun: good for you? " I described why I believe you should disable Autorun on all computers in your organization. I also explained how you can do this for XP and Vista computers. Well, it turns out that Windows will override Read More...
Posted 30 October 07 03:12 by Steve Riley | 11 Comments   
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What's your data worth? More importantly, to whom?
This week, I'm attending and spoke at a cybercrime conference in Singapore. One of the presenters made a very good point, and I want to share it with you. When considering how to protect your data, don't consider how valuable it might be to an attacker. Read More...
Posted 24 October 07 11:49 by Steve Riley | 5 Comments   
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Myth vs. reality: Wireless SSIDs
Do you ever wonder sometimes how it is that some ideas just won't die? Like the thought that not broadcasting your wireless network's SSID will somehow make you more secure? This is a myth that needs to be forcibly dragged out behind the woodshed, strangled Read More...
Posted 16 October 07 12:08 by Steve Riley | 15 Comments   
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