Microsoft Trusted Stack: Can We Ever Trust People?

Can we ever trust any kind of identity module?  What if everyone had a chip to identify them and this chip was required to logon to a computer, network or the internet?  Would this be failsafe?  We think not.  Read on to find out why.

FRI 04 JULY 2008 |Featured in: FIRST 2008

Trusted Stack Issues

Ben begins a series on perceived issues with the Microsoft Trusted Stack model

FRI 04 JULY 2008 |Featured in: FIRST 2008

First Conference Liaison Podcast

In this podcast, Peter Allor of IBM tells Ben Chai what it’s like being the FIRST 2008 Conference Liaison and the importance of this role for the FIRST membership.

THU 03 JULY 2008 |Featured in: FIRST 2008

Microsoft and FIRST Security Podcast

In this three minute podcast, Ben Chai finds out why George Stathakopolous, general manager of security at Microsoft enjoys being at FIRST.

THU 03 JULY 2008 |Featured in: FIRST 2008

The Trusted Stack

What is the trusted stack and how can it help improve your overal security posture? This blog looks at why it was necessary for Microsoft to further evolve their SD3 with layered defence strategy.

THU 03 JULY 2008 |Featured in: FIRST 2008

Beyond SD3

Back in 2001, Microsoft's security strategy was originally the 3Ds

• Secure by Design
• Secure by Default and
• Secure in Deployment

Since then they have evolved this strategy to cope with the modern day threat landscape.

WED 02 JULY 2008 |Featured in: FIRST 2008

End to End Trust – The Next Security Era?

End to End Trust - a new framework for secure business transactions.  What is it and how does it work?  This blog is based on George Stathakopolous, general manager of security engineering and communications at Microsoft Keynotes talk at FIRST 2008.

WED 02 JULY 2008 |Featured in: FIRST 2008

Focused Malware Podcast

Malware has mushroomed and evolved.  No longer is malware an attack all problem.  It has become focused on countries and industries

MON 30 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: FIRST 2008

Applied Security Visualisation Podcast

A picture can save reading a thousand lines of a security log file. Raffael Marty of Splunk discusses his book and talk on Applied Security Visualisation with Peter Wood of First Base

MON 30 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: FIRST 2008

Blended Attacks using Social Engineering Podcast

In this podcast, Peter Wood of First Base and Raffael Marty of Splunk discuss the key points from Peter’s talk at the FIRST 2008 conference on how many attacks are a combination of technological and social engineering and the lack of defences to a combined attack

MON 30 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: FIRST 2008