Archive for the 'Microsoft' Category

The Future : Regulation is Futile – Market Forces Will Prevail

April 28, 2009

39,000 ft over yet another ocean ……
I just watched an old Bill Joy talk from Ted 2006 via iTunes. Two key paraphrases struck me as prophetic.
“You can’t regulate the problem away”
“What we need is better networks”
In 2005 I did a series of public speaking events using a theme Naked security in which I stripped [...]

Series of Static Analysis Posts

December 22, 2008

If you haven’t downloaded it here (or here if you run 64 bit) and run it against your .NET code you probably should.
To support the CTP release of CAT.NET Andreas Fuchsberger (developer on CISG) and Ben Livshits (Microsoft Research) will be posting a series of blogs over the next few weeks about the work behind [...]

BI and Surface

December 17, 2008

MSFT Surface + MSFT BI = sexy

CAT.NET and Anti-XSS 3.0 Released for Free

December 15, 2008

We have just released a free static analysis tool for .NET and the open source Anti-XSS 3.0 library (complete with Security Run-Time Engine).
http://blogs.msdn.com/cisg/archive/2008/12/15/anti-xss-3-0-beta-and-cat-net-community-technology-preview-now-live.aspx

Team Foundation Server (TFS) and the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top Ten

November 21, 2008

Nice article over on MSDN here.

Azure – The Microsoft Cloud Arrives!

October 27, 2008

Azure Platform Home Page
Windows Azure – The Cloud Services Operating System
.NET Services – Access Control, Services Bus and Workflow
SQL Services – Database Services
Live Services – LiveID, LiveEarth, Contacts
Digest that for a while (yes it really is that big), chuck in some LiveMesh and you’ll realize that Microsoft is now not the company you may think [...]

.NET – New Logo!

October 25, 2008

PDC is just around the corner where I hear all sorts of stuff will get announced. Watch for cloud computing (Red Dog et all), Oslo (modelling, DSL’s etc) and .NET 4.0 stuff in general. If you have ever been to TechEd or PDC you know we know how to put on an event!

SecurityNow

October 17, 2008

We have just posted the first of a series of articles about a proof of concept called SecurityNow that we built at work.
http://blogs.msdn.com/cisg/
 

Microsoft Joins OWASP

October 12, 2008

If you navigate over to the OWASP members page you will see a new logo

It’s an interesting full circle for me having started OWASP back in 2001 and now having had a hand in one of the biggest technology companies in the world (my current employer) joining. Someone sent me a mail on Friday [...]

Finally We Get Better at Marketing

September 12, 2008

Watch for the follow ups
BTW if you want a better resolution version than GooTube go here http://www.microsoft.com/windows/