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What should a User Group be? A New Information Security User Group is taking form

Many people at InfoSec expressed great interest in joining a new User Group that's focused 100% on Microsoft Information Security - it's being run by MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals). We discussed the essence of the various different successful User Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 29, 2006 6:30 PM by Steve Lamb | 8 Comments

Information is NOT Power. Effective Security enables Powerful decisions

Information is NOT Power. Timely access to accurate information can give the holder the ability to make powerful decisions. Effective Information Technology can enable the required flow of information. Inappropriate Information Security Policues, Processes, Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 29, 2006 2:59 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments

News from the consumer awareness campaign - GetSafeOnline

We've been evangelising to the good people of Birmingham today - local radio, the main library, the BullRing shopping centre, the University and the Town Hall. We met the Major and showed in the demonstrations and material we're using around the City. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 02, 2005 4:23 PM by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments

Join us on 29th Nov to find out in Plain English AND deep technical HOW PKI works

Many of you have asked me questions about Public Key Infrastructure with regard to it's use for securing web transactions (SSL), wireless (PEAP & EAL-TLS), email (S/MIME) and Rights Management. Prior to joining Microsoft I was a security consultant Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 01, 2005 2:14 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments

What would you like to know about PKI?

Like many of you I've heard all the stories about how PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) "will save the day" for all our security concerns - this message was pushed particularly hard four to five years ago. PKI is a component of infrastructure which makes Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2005 4:37 PM by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments

Royal Holloway MSc in Computer Security

<I've edited this post to add a link to the pictures together with the following image> Thank you to everyone I met at Royal Holloway from the MSc in Computer Security (distance learning) course. I can honestly say I rarely get to meet to many interesting Read More...
Posted Monday, September 19, 2005 2:05 PM by Steve Lamb | 4 Comments

Should children be encouraged to secure their family's PCs?

I met a diverse group of people earlier today and one of the interesting debates that we touched upon was - "Should Children be encouraged to secure their family's PC(s)". In my experience there seem to be two schools of thought: - firstly that generally Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 15, 2005 7:00 PM by Steve Lamb | 6 Comments

Here are some great Cheat Sheets and here is why I love the term "Ego Surfing" and what on Earth is Technorati anyway

I've just been reading KC's blog post about Cheat sheets - it's well worth a look as the site he links to contains summaries of all kinds of useful information - the list is almost endless - well worth a look. I've heard the term "Ego Surfing" many times Read More...
Posted Friday, September 09, 2005 8:37 AM by Steve Lamb | 5 Comments
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Addendum to my last post about Team Foundation Server

Thanks to Rob for setting me straight with regard to my last post about Team Foundation Server. Rob's pointed out that TFS is not actually limited to teams of people greater than five - I added this comment as the strengths of TFS centre around it's source Read More...
Posted Friday, July 15, 2005 9:33 AM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
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How important is separation to you when deploying IIS SQL and Team Foundation Server

Rob Caron works for Microsoft Corp. and he's looking for your feedback regarding how important you view separation between IIS, SQL and Team Foundation Server. For those who haven't heard of Team Foundation Server(TFS) it's a part of the upcoming Visual Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 14, 2005 4:19 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments

What is the best way to stop your boss obsessing about the hot security story in the news?

During the course of my conversations with people at TechEd last week on item came up time and again - many of you work with people who panic when there's a high profile security story in the news - the result is that you are tasked with interrupting Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 14, 2005 4:00 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the "how to deal with Malware" post

There's some great advice in the comments to my recent post about Malware - thanks to everyone who contributed. If you would like to learn from your peers in the community then please take a look at the comments by clicking here . If you'd like to contribute Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 22, 2005 10:01 PM by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments

Free MIIS technical event which includes practical demonstrations - this is not a sales event

Come and spend a day with Microsoft and partner Identity Management experts who will demonstrate how to deal with user administration, security, compliance, directory services, single sign on, password management, and self service. There will be sessions Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 04, 2005 10:18 AM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments

Are ITPROs in the UK familiar with the Term "BlackHat"?

I'm sure you're probably familiar with the term ITPro but just incase you're not then it means people who are paid for Technical work on Information systems. Is the term "BlackHat" familiar to ITPros in the UK? Please hit the "Feedback" button for this Read More...
Posted Monday, February 28, 2005 10:11 AM by Steve Lamb | 20 Comments

What is RIPA and why is it important to your organisation?

RIPA is an acronym for The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 which is a piece of UK legislation governing the right of the authorities to recover information from UK organisations as required for investigations. I am not a legal expert, make Read More...
Posted Friday, February 25, 2005 3:29 PM by Steve Lamb | (Comments Off)
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