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Friday, September 09, 2005 8:45 PM

Customer Feedback Wicki for Windows Security Access Control

Hi folks. My current possition at Microsoft is as a Program Manager (PM) on the Security User Experience team in the Windows Security Access Control (WSAC) group. I'm just posting this to mention a new set of Wiki pages at Channel9 that have been put
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Wednesday, July 13, 2005 4:12 PM

Fear and Loathing in Las Seguridades (Security)

Fear. Anger. Distrust. These will motiviate users to change their behaviour when it comes to securing their computers At least that's the way Frank Hayes sees it in his article "Fear, Anger, Distrust" . Hayes discusses two surveys that came out last week:
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Wednesday, July 13, 2005 1:08 PM

Usable Security - a new Usability and Security blog

Well, I'm a bit late to the party but that doesn't mean I can't still welcome Ping and his Usable Security blog to the intersection of User Experience Ave. and Security St. ;-) It's nice to see someone else blogging in this area. I look forward to reading
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Thursday, April 07, 2005 12:57 PM

LUA in the News

Check out an Infoworld article discussing LUA in Longhorn
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Monday, March 28, 2005 6:00 PM

strawberryJAMM moves to Blogs @ TechNet

blogs.TechNet.com has officially gone live and "strawberryJAMM's Security and User Experience WebLog" has moved off blogs.MSDN.com
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:12 AM

Adobe Photoshop CS activation doesn't play well with LUA

The activation process in Adobe Photoshop CS doesn't work for LUA users because of the technique that was implemented to validate activation every time the program is launched. There are workarounds, but none are particularly ideal.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2005 4:56 PM

Internet Explorer 7

Today, in his keynote for the 2005 RSA conference, Bill Gates announced, among other things, that Microsoft would be releasing a new version of Internet Explorer (IE7) for the XP SP2 platform.
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Monday, February 14, 2005 9:19 PM

More Tips and Tricks for the LUA User

Aaron Margosis has posted four more columns with LUA Tips and Tricks on his "Non-Admin Blog"
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Friday, February 04, 2005 12:59 PM

A New Wiki for the LUA / Non-Admin community

The "least-privileged user" concept with Windows is slowly picking up speed and getting ready to take off - come check out the Non-Admin Wiki that was just launched.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2005 5:58 PM

Least-Privileged Users, Add/Remove Programs and System Management Server

Did you know that installations published to enterprise employees using Systems Management Server (SMS) can be successfully installed by a non-Admin user using the "Add New Programs" view of the Add/Remove Programs (ARP) control panel applet?
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Tuesday, January 18, 2005 5:19 PM

"Using a Least-Privileged User Account" OR "Woohoo, I've been published on microsoft.com!"

An article I wrote, "Using a Least-Privileged User Account (LUA)", was published on TechNet as part of the monthly Microsoft Security Newsletter for January 2005. It takes a brief look at a few of the key issues around the principle of "least-privilege" and running as LUA on the Windows OS.
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Tuesday, January 18, 2005 4:50 PM

Browsing the Web and Reading E-mail Safely as an Administrator, Part 2

Michael Howard has written a follow up to an earlier article where he outlined how to programatically make web browsing and reading e-mail safer for administrators. In this latest article, he provides instructions on how to do the same thing using SAFER (also known as Software Restriction Policies - SRP) with local or enterprise policy to reduce potential threats against these kinds of applications.
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Wednesday, December 22, 2004 1:53 PM

Windows Security Logging and Other Esoterica

One of the colleagues on my team - Eric Fitzgerald, the "Windows Auditing" expert (he /is/ the Windows auditing team) - is also blogging. If you're interested in reading explanations about security event numbers and some tid-bits on planned Windows auditing fixes and improvements in W2K3 Server SP1 or Longhorn, check out his "Windows Security Logging and Other Esoterica" blog.
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Friday, November 26, 2004 8:30 PM

The Perception of System Security

Valery Pryamikov has posted an excellent little article discussing how the perception of system security has changed across the software industry over the years. The article focuses on Microsoft's perceptions and behaviour, but other software vendors and OS flavours are also mentioned here and there.
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Friday, November 19, 2004 3:47 PM

Safe Web Browsing and E-mail for the Administrator

A useful article by Michael Howard, discusses how you can run as an administrator and access Internet data safely by dropping unnecessary administrative privileges when using any tool to access the Internet.
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