microsoft
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 he [...]
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 identity [...]
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 the [...]
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 a [...]
Continue Reading End to End Trust from a positive viewpoint
Tags: microsoft
By Ken Y-N
April 21st, 2008 at 01:51pm
Under Advocacy
I don’t know about you, but I find cheap shots at easy targets insulting to my intelligence. The story title is a take on the famous “No-one ever got sacked for buying IBM”, as although I am no fanboy for Microsoft myself, I get tired of seeing terms like Micro$oft and MicroShaft.
The latest offended is [...]
Continue Reading No-one ever got sacked for insulting Microsoft
Tags: microsoft
By Ken Y-N
April 15th, 2008 at 01:33pm
Under End to End Trust
The “problem” with today’s internet users, as Scott Charney highlights in the “Establishing End-to-end Trust” white paper is that consumers want not just privacy, but also anonymity. Of course, the average user is relatively-easily identifiable from their IP address, but that’s a slightly different issue.
He writes:
“Ensuring that people can be identified raises the most complex [...]
Continue Reading BetaNews investigates Microsoft’s End to End Trust
Tags: microsoft
By Ken Y-N
April 10th, 2008 at 03:17pm
Under End to End Trust
At the RSA Conference 2008 in San Francisco Microsoft’s top security strategists talked about security on the internet today and in the future. Microsoft admitted they cannot solve all the problems on their own, and called for wider support from IT and Internet communities to help expediate their efforts.
The only way to restore trust in [...]
Continue Reading Microsoft: internet needs smarter identity
Tags: microsoft
By Ken Y-N
April 10th, 2008 at 03:15pm
Under End to End Trust
At a keynote speech at the RSA Conference 2008 at San Francisco, Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, talked about Microsoft’s vision for End to End Trust. Initiatives such as the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) have laid the foundations for security, but now higher-level protocols need to be considered.
One key idea is proving [...]
Continue Reading Microsoft: “Trust us!”
Tags: microsoft
By Ken Y-N
March 18th, 2008 at 03:02pm
Under TPM
After five years on the advisory panel for Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing initiative, ADT Mag interviewed Richard Kemmerer on his experiences working for the Redmond giant. His basic opinion is that although security has improved overall, there still is a long way to go.
Soon after Microsoft came up with its “Trustworthy Computing” buzzword in 2002 [...]
Continue Reading Richard Kemmerer and Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory (TCAA) initiative
Tags: microsoft
By Ken Y-N
