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Monday, November 17, 2008 5:03 PM

GetSafeOnline: providing advice for consumers to help them stay safe on the Internet without blinding them with science

It's the fourth annual GetSafeOnline campaign week whereby the team will raise the profile of consumer internet safety through a revamped GetSafeOnline website (containing a wealth of commonsense "how to" information) and a range of media activity. It's
Posted by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:37 AM

How can Public Key Infrastructure technologies improve your information security posture?

There’s a really good (free) TechNet webcast coming up on the 17th September which will be a great resource for those of you who’d like to learn how to take advantage of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) in your organisation. The full details of the event
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:20 PM

Interesting video interviews with the FBI discussing security

Kai Axford has posted a series of short video interviews with representatives of the FBI – they are well worth a look – particularly if you are based in the United States as they include advice regarding whom to report breaches to. Check out The Security
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008 2:02 PM

Alexander Sotirov speaks out following wild spin on his talk about Windows Vista Security

Credit to Ed Bott from ZDNet who interviewed Alexander Sotirov to get his perspective on the stories that have circulated in the press following the talk he gave with Mark Dowd at the recent BlackHat Securit conference. The talk was titled "How to Impress
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:35 AM

What Virtual Private Networking software would I recommend for Windows and how to set it up?

I was recently asked this very question and I responded with "Windows Server 2008/2003/2000 and Windows Vista/XP" provide excellent built-in Virtual Private Networking features that are standards compliant and assuming they are correctly configured can
Posted by Steve Lamb | 4 Comments
Friday, August 01, 2008 4:54 AM

Which database is more secure? Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server?

I still come across Oracle enthusiasts who mistakenly believe that Oracle’s database suite is more secure than Microsoft’s SQL database suite – this is nonesense as I shall explain. The point to this post is not to gloat – it’s simply to set the record
Posted by Steve Lamb | 6 Comments
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 1:32 PM

VistaSquad: Join us tonight in London for a live Network Access Protection demo on Server 2008 and Vista

You can read the full details here - it's free, technical and should be fun too - just add a comment to their post if you're coming along The agenda is as follows: 6pm - 6.30pm: Arrive and introductions 6.30pm - 7:30pm: Building RIA Apps 7.30pm - 8:15:
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 8:57 AM

Bizarre Coffee Machine Hack

I enjoyed reading the Hacking Coffee Makers post on Security Focus . Thanks to Barry Dorrans for sharing it with me via Twitter Thanks to Faye Yu for the image (which isn't related to the story - it's just a nice looking coffee machine) - she's reserved
Posted by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
Saturday, May 31, 2008 10:33 PM

Bitlocker: what happens if someone leaves the company or locks themselves out?

Many of the questions I've been asked recently regarding Bitlocker are covered on the excellent Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption Freuqently Asked Questions . For me the most important thing to consider is how on Earth to deal with the "the dog ate the
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 8:08 PM

What does it do?

My Grandmother was wise. She asked me the question back on 25th December 1984. "What does it do?" After lunch on Christmas day like many other twelve year olds I was keen to share my excitement of the amazing things I could do with my computer. My poor
Posted by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments
Thursday, May 29, 2008 8:06 PM

How do Microsoft manage their physical security?

There's a great new white paper detailing how Microsoft Manage Physical Security across our enourmous estate. Our enterprise comprises 670 sites with 150,000 active holders of access cards and 20 million physical security events each month. Our physical
Posted by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:19 PM

How to reduce information leaks from your organisation

Information leaks from most organisations to some extent or another. One way it does so is by employees (perhaps who are about to leave) taking it out of the door on the removable storage device of their choice. Access controls can be used to segment
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Friday, April 18, 2008 10:18 AM

Why should your users use least privilege on their corporate computers?

If a business allows it's users to install whatever software they choose and/or make configuration changes then they run the increased risk of the security of the machine being compromised. I recommend wherever possible businesses should refrain from
Posted by Steve Lamb | 9 Comments
Tuesday, April 08, 2008 11:05 AM

Would it be interesting to use NAP to secure branch servers?

My focus today is to write most of the content for my sessions on our upcoming TechNet Server Launch tour which is visiting cinemas in five cities across the UK in April and May. I'm co-presenting a session with Viral titled "How to overcome the challenges
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Monday, March 31, 2008 10:38 PM

I'm a developer, how can I integrate my application with NAP?

There's a great article on MSDN titled simply Network Access Protection which explains how you can integrate your application with Microsoft's Network Access Protection(NAP). Why would you want to do this? Well NAP is a core networking feature of Windows
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