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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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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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More on the necessity of antivirus software
A few days ago, I wrote a brief post about my non-use of antivirus software on my own computers. A number of people have asked me privately if I am recommending such a stance to other individuals or to organizations. Let me be perfectly clear: absolutely Read More...
Posted 25 September 07 10:53 by Steve Riley | 11 Comments   
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Autorun: good for you?
Yes, if you're a five-year-old and you're tired of always asking mom or dad how to start the game on the CD. No need to know how! Just pick up the disc (a little peanut butter on your fingers helps with the grip), slide it in the drive, and wait for the Read More...
Posted 22 September 07 10:29 by Steve Riley | 3 Comments   
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Antivirus software -- who needs it?
In the newsgroups a few weeks ago, someone asked about which anti-virus software is best for experts. This is a really curious question. I've been involved in computer security -- as a practitioner, a consultant, and an instructor/speaker -- for several Read More...
Posted 22 September 07 09:14 by Steve Riley | 16 Comments   
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Windows Integrity Mechanism: more than you ever wanted to know
A while back, the technology in Vista called mandatory integrity control got a new name: Windows integrity mechanism. Recently the folks responsible for developing the technology have posted a good amount of documentation on it. Read the Windows Vista Read More...
Posted 13 July 07 10:49 by Steve Riley | 0 Comments   
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Protect your data: everything else is just plumbing
Take a few moments and indulge in a thought exercise with me. Consider your company’s complete collection of information processing assets—all the computers, the networks they’re connected to, the applications you use, and the data and information you Read More...
Posted 02 July 07 01:46 by Steve Riley | 7 Comments   
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TechNet: Exploring the Windows Vista Firewall
New article up... Back in the days of the paleocomputing era, no one ever thought about installing firewalls on individual computers. Who needed to? Hardly anyone had heard of the Internet, TCP/IP was nowhere in sight, and LAN protocols didn’t route beyond Read More...
Posted 29 May 07 04:01 by Steve Riley | 0 Comments   
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Enabling Secure Anywhere Access in a Connected World
A few times each year, Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer publish an executive memo. The first memo was Bill's essay on trustworthy computing , in July 2002. Today Bill has a new memo , one that is very important for all of us who strive to achieve a balance Read More...
Posted 06 February 07 12:47 by Steve Riley | 1 Comments   
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BitLocker command line interface
Last week at TechEd Europe I showed the BitLocker command-line interface. At other TechEds I've mentioned it but didn't show it. The CLI provides full control over BitLocker, including enabling it on any NTFS volume on the system (the Control Panel UI Read More...
Posted 25 November 06 08:39 by Steve Riley | 14 Comments   
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iPods spread disease?
Well well. Looks like a few new iPod owners are getting infected when they attach their players to their computers. I'll quote the first paragraph from Apple's web site: We recently discovered that a small number - less than 1% - of the Video iPods available Read More...
Posted 17 October 06 02:57 by Steve Riley | 8 Comments   
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Did you know that you ALREADY have an e-mail policy?
An email access policy can be expressed in one of two ways: E-mail is mission critical to our business. Therefore, we permit employees to read and compose e-mail from any location in the world where employees can access the Internet, using either company-issued Read More...
Posted 10 September 06 05:34 by Steve Riley | 7 Comments   
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Ah, the joys of speaking about pre-release software!
Two weeks ago I delivered my Windows Vista System Integrity presentation at the TechEds in New Zealand (Auckland) and Australia (Sydney). It was largely the same as the presention at TechEds in America and India, but updated to reflect changes made in Read More...
Posted 06 September 06 02:26 by Steve Riley | 4 Comments   
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