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November 22nd, 2009 at 04:02pm
Under Advocacy
Here’s an interesting article I stumbled across on eWeek about a security wish list for the next version of Internet Explorer. Scott Crawford, an analyst with Enterprise Management Associates, had this to say: "This [IE taking a more proactive approach to stopping attempts to compromise the browser] is in view with respect to the OS [...]
Continue Reading Making Internet Explorer more trusted
Tags: eweek, internet explorer, microsoft
By Ken Y-N
November 7th, 2009 at 02:39pm
Under TPM
I enjoyed reading this article from Scott Hanselman’s ComputerZen blog on how to set up BitLocker but still be able to boot into virtual hard disk images. It was also interesting to see that Microsoft now require all contractors (and presumably full-time staff too) to encrypt all their drives with BitLocker.
Continue Reading TPM, BitLocker, and Microsoft contractors
Tags: bitlocker, microsoft
By Ken Y-N
April 22nd, 2009 at 02:32pm
Under Advocacy
DarkReading recently described the new security features in Windows 7, as presented by Scott Charney, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group, in a keynote at the RSA Conference 2009. One excellent feature (it will be interesting to see how exactly it is implemented), is BitLocker To Go, using the TPM, if present on [...]
Continue Reading Security in Windows 7
Tags: bitlocker, darkreading, microsoft
By Ken Y-N
April 1st, 2009 at 03:49pm
Under TPM
The blog Erich sieht recently posted about an upcoming paper on Attacking the BitLocker Boot Process, to be presented at Trust 2009 in Oxford 6th to 8th April. Although as you can see from my other posts, I’m a really big fan of the TCG’s Storage encryption standards, but I’m not much of a fan [...]
Continue Reading Attacking Microsoft’s BitLocker
Tags: bitlocker, microsoft, secure boot
By Ken Y-N
January 21st, 2009 at 03:11pm
Under TPM
On the Invisible Things Lab’s blog, there was an interesting post on why the writer misses Microsoft’s BitLocker now that she has switched to a Mac. I’m very pleasantly surprised to see such a positive article from a serious security researchers! She details how BitLocker (Microsoft’s TPM-based disk encryption for Vista) can protect you from [...]
Continue Reading Positive review of Microsoft’s BitLocker
Tags: bitlocker, Invisible Things Lab, microsoft
By Ken Y-N
July 4th, 2008 at 09:30am
Under End to End Trust
At a keynote speech somewhere (the article doesn’t say where!) Ben Chai, the author of the article, heard George Stathakopolous, general manager of security engineering and communications at Microsoft, talk about End to End Trust. The full details of his talk may be found here. Mr Chai plans to write a three-part series on what [...]
Continue Reading The new era of End to End Trust?
Tags: microsoft, security portalpro
By Ken Y-N
May 15th, 2008 at 08:48am
Under Advocacy
My favourite author on security matters, Bruce Schneier, expressed suspicion after Microsoft’s presentation of their vision of End to End Trust at last month’s RSA Conference in San Francisco. His view, as expressed in the article was: “It feels general and like marketing hype. Basically, Microsoft has used its trusted computing efforts, such as inserting [...]
Continue Reading Scepticism on End to End Trust
Tags: bruce schneier, microsoft, rsa
By Ken Y-N
May 14th, 2008 at 11:37am
Under Advocacy
This is the proposition of Gary Richmond, a Free Software Magazine columnist, and not surprisingly he concludes, yes, Digital Rights Management (DRM) is in its death throws, but presents little evidence to back up this claim, and indeed in the rather poorly-written article spreads some FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt) of his own while claiming [...]
Continue Reading Is DRM dying?
Tags: microsoft
By Ken Y-N
May 8th, 2008 at 04:37pm
Under TNC
The highlight for the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) from the Interop Las Vegas conference must surely be the Trusted Network Connect’s (TNC) new protocol IF-MAP (Interface for Metadata Access Point). This time it was Sean Michael Kerner writing for InternetNews.com waxing lyrical on its merits. With backing from both Cisco and all the members of [...]
Continue Reading NAC uniting under the TNC banner
Tags: cisco, if-map, interop, microsoft, nac
By Ken Y-N
April 22nd, 2008 at 01:25pm
Under Advocacy+ End to End Trust
I suppose many people would describe him as a Microsoft fanboy, due to a story posted by Jon Oltsik on news.com looking at Microsoft’s End to End Trust initiative. This is a favourable but level-headed look at the previously-reported keynote from Craig Mundie at the RSA Conference 2008. The three key elements of this is [...]
Continue Reading End to End Trust from a positive viewpoint
Tags: microsoft
By Ken Y-N