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Time to get personally connected on MSDN UK
I have always been astounded by the shear volume of content that is available on MSDN. Sadly, like security, the more of it there is, the harder it is to use! Search engines can be a great help in finding what you need, but not so good a finding updated...
Posted: Sep 17 2004, 03:12 PM by mikeshaw | with 1 comment(s)
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Is Linus Torvalds secretly working for Microsoft?
An interesting article about the cost of Windows vs the cost of certain Linux deployments: http://www.forbes.com/enterprisetech/2004/08/31/cz_dl_0831msft.html . Read and enjoy ;-)
Posted: Sep 02 2004, 06:21 PM by mikeshaw | with 3 comment(s)
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Microsoft Technical Briefing on 4th October at Wembley Conference Centre, London.
There is only just over a month to go before I will be speaking at the Technical Summit at the Wembley Conference Centre, London . The day will begin with Rafal Lukawiecki Director of Project Botticelli Ltd , talking about Threat Modelling for ssecure...
ASP.NET Architecture Internals
On the 5 th July I delivered a webcast on ASP.NET Architecture internals as a follow-on to the UK MSDN Roadshow events we ran in the UK earlier in the year. You can find the link to the download of the webcast at http://www.microsoft.com/uk/resources...
Posted: Aug 25 2004, 07:04 PM by mikeshaw | with no comments
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Released Service Pack 1 of Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0 available for download
If you’re doing anything with secure web services using the .NET Framework, then you’ll want to get the latest version of WSE 2.0 available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=fc5f06c5-821f-41d3-a4fe-6c7b56423841&displaylang...
Oh what a week! Security Myth #3 delayed...
This has turned out to be one of those weeks I didn’t plan for and suddenly it’s the Friday before a week’s vacation and I haven’t managed to achieve even half the things I’d hoped, so sadly, Security Myth #3 “Cryptography...
Posted: Jul 30 2004, 10:24 AM by mikeshaw | with 7 comment(s)
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Myth # 2: The Internet is full of nice people
When Windows for Workgroups 3.11 shipped I don’t think anyone believed that over the coming 10 years the number of computers in use would increase more than 10 fold and that almost all of them would, at one time or another, connect to the internet...
Posted: Jul 20 2004, 12:44 PM by mikeshaw | with 3 comment(s)
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ISA Server 2004 has shipped (last week)!
Well I must have blinked because I missed it first time around. I, along with many others, found ISA Server 2000 a bit tricky to configure and the product team have done a great job in making ISA Server 2004 much, much easier. But not only that, there...
.NET Framework Service Pack Tech Preview's Available for Download
Well, I bet I’m not the first to blog about the .NET Service Pack Technology Preview’s availability since they wer released two weeks ago. These service packs have about 140 changes, including a roll-up of the framework hotfixes, some improvements...
Posted: Jul 14 2004, 11:11 AM by mikeshaw | with 1 comment(s)
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A Threat Modelling book, tool, demo and links
Threat modelling should be a part of the design of any system, software or otherwise – hey, it’s just part of the design. A post on Friday on the Channel 9 site by Frank Swiderski talks about the Threat Modelling tool he has written and mentions...
Posted: Jul 13 2004, 05:18 PM by mikeshaw | with 1 comment(s)
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