A firewall that is off by default? No granularity to the user settings? Sounds like Leopard might not be as secure as people like to band around. We’ve been making security part of the development methodology for years now and the fruits of our labour are starting to pay off – we had the fewest…
Tag: Security
Forefront Security 3 day Technical Bootcamp
Can you tell I’m going through my training emails at the moment? 🙂 Next up is the 3 day technical bootcamp for Forefront Security! Here’s the scoop With Microsoft’s best-in-class Forefront Security products, you’re in control of the new customer opportunities awaiting you. During this course, you’ll learn how the Forefront line of products offers…
Microsoft Security Product Training for Partners
We’ve got some plans afoot for LAR and Disti Partners regarding Security training and getting your sales staff skilled up on our products like Forefront. These training sessions are organised by role so find the appropriate role and then do the training. There is training for all types whether you are a Sales Rep or…
Vista’s 6 month security check-up: Bill Gates’ push on security pays off
Five years ago Bill Gates launched the “Trustworthy Computing Initiative” which put secure, private and reliable computing as one of the fundamental tenants of software development at Microsoft. Everything that is developed at Microsoft is exposed to stringent security reviews and automated security tests which attempt to uncover any problems from a security perspective. There’s…
How to spot a spoofed website
You know those emails you get from banks asking you to visit their website to confirm your details? Those are phishing emails – one half of the ploy to alleviate you of your identity. The second half of the ploy which comes in the form of a spoof website, and once you click on a…
Can I customise UAC?
I had some interesting questions today from customers about the level of customization an IT guy can do regarding which areas of functionality are protected by UAC. I.e. if I don’t want the Firewall protected by UAC can I change a setting in Group Policy? The answer is unfortunately no, you can’t customize the individual bits…
Security in Silverlight
Following the announcement at Mix a few weeks back, one of the questions on many people’s lips is (as with any cool technology) what are the implications, who better to explain about this than the .NET security team? One of the interesting email newsletters that hits my inbox is MSDN Flash which is created by developers…
Partners! Get the new Vista Demo Toolkit!
The new Partner DRT is LIVE! Please visit www.windowsvista.com/YourDRT where you can set up the Demo Readiness Toolkit on your own primary PC. No need for a dedicated demo PC! Also of worthy note is www.IE7Demos.com which shows off the security enhancements in IE7 and Windows Vista. Technorati tags: Vista, DRT, Demos
The £980,000 Laptop
Nationwide is the UK’s largest building society and last year one of its employees had a laptop stolen from his home. They reported the laptop stolen to Nationwide and then went on holiday. 3 weeks later he told them that the laptop had contained customer information and it was at this point Nationwide kicked off…
IE Address bar gets the green light
There’s been quite a bit written about IE7 and the red address bar that warns users of a suspicious or known-phishing website. However, it was only on Friday that the functionality was turned on to display a new form of user security awareness. Yes, my friends, I’m talking about the green address bar! Websites that…