• Pre-warning: Windows Server 2003 SP1 Out of Support in April

    During Conficker we realized that a lot of customers are on unsupported OSs. I would like to draw your attention to a few things: There is a webpage called Microsoft Support Lifecycle where you find all the information on the lifecycle of our products...
  • Two new Security Advisories

    I just want to make sure you have seen it: There were some reports in the last day or two about targeted attacks on Excel. We are aware of these reports and are looking into this. In order to give you our assessment of the situation, we published Microsoft...
  • Security Compliance Management Toolkit

    A few days ago, we released the Security Compliance Management Toolkit. I think that this toolkit might definitely help you to secure your environment and monitor it against a security baseline Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series Roger
  • Gazelle – the secure Web browser of the future?

    This is an interesting paper from Microsoft Research. Now, before you read it: This is research and be no means a commitement to develop it for IE 9. The Multi-Principal OS Construction of the Gazelle Web Browser Roger
  • The Impact of the Security Development Lifecycle

    Jeff Jones just started a blog series to show the impact of our Security Development Lifecycle on the updates to be deployed. It is a pretty interesting read: Here is the February version: Feb09 Security Bulletin SDL Benefit Summary Roger