The Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL ( CVE-2014-0160 ) has received a significant amount of attention recently. While the discovered issue is specific to OpenSSL, many customers are wondering whether this affects Microsoft’s offerings, specifically...

Microsoft’s Application Request Router (ARR) IIS Extension is a complex piece of software which integrates with several other components to do its job. These components are URL Rewrite , Web Farm Framework and ARR’s External Cache module....

While security is on everyone’s mind, some organization with higher than usual security requirements have had some concerns regarding the encryption used in web-based transactions. Everyone knows that SSL encryption is pretty much the default for any...

Technorati Tags: IIS News Item Introduction Application Request Routing (ARR) is a proxy-based routing module that uses HTTP headers, server variables, and load balance algorithms to determine how to forward HTTP requests to content servers. The...

When Christopher Bullock wrote about the certainties in life in his book The Political History of the Devil , he probably should have added a 3 rd certainty…that your certificates WILL expire and you’ll have to renew them. I think we can forgive that...