Entries Tagged as 'Microsoft'
by Neil MacDonald | September 24, 2010 | Comments Off
Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is a free consumer offering originally delivered to market in 2009 based on the same engine and anti-malware feeds that are used within Microsoft’s for-fee enterprise-oriented Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP). I saw this announcement from Microsoft earlier in the week. From the announcement: For this reason, Microsoft is announcing that beginning [...]
Category: Endpoint Protection Platform Microsoft Microsoft Security Tags: Endpoint Protection Platform, Microsoft, Microsoft Security, Reducing Cost, Windows
by Neil MacDonald | September 22, 2010 | 11 Comments
Migrating from IE6 to IE8 is not easy because of legacy web-enabled applications that don’t render correctly on IE8 and vendors that are slow to officially support it. There are a variety of ways to virtualize IE6 to help with this issue, including using application virtualization tools. I originally wrote about the potential issues using [...]
Category: Microsoft Microsoft Security Virtualization Tags: Microsoft, Microsoft Security, Virtualization, Windows
by Neil MacDonald | September 10, 2010 | 1 Comment
Our mobile analysts are working on the official Gartner analysis of the announcement and I’ll link to this when it becomes available. As Gartner’s primary analyst on Microsoft, I interviewed Stephen at Gartner’s US Fall Symposium last fall. Over the past several years, I’ve gotten to know Stephen Elop pretty well. He is a great [...]
Category: General Technology Microsoft Tags: Microsoft
by Neil MacDonald | August 3, 2010 | Comments Off
Last week, Microsoft held its annual financial analyst meeting. The materials presented are available at this link. There are the things you would expect – like Microsoft talking about the success of Windows 7 and IE8. There were a couple of areas that stood out: 1) Microsoft’s Chief Operating Officer, Kevin Turner, explained that Microsoft’s [...]
Category: Cloud General Technology Next-generation Data Center Windows 7 Tags: Cloud Security, Microsoft, Microsoft Security, Windows
by Neil MacDonald | April 1, 2010 | Comments Off
One of the constant recommendations in my research is to reduce your exposure to malware by running more users as standard user. I’ve talked about this issue here, here and here. There are several possible approaches to help here. Microsoft’s User Account Control in Windows Vista and Windows 7 is an approach, but suffers from [...]
Category: Endpoint Protection Platform Information Security Tags: Best Practices, Endpoint Protection Platform, Lockdown, Microsoft, Microsoft Security, Security No-Brainer, Windows
by Neil MacDonald | March 26, 2010 | 1 Comment
Microsoft recently held its 2010 MIX conference for web developers in the US. As expected, there was a significant focus on Silverlight, the Windows Phone platform and IE9. An unexpected and welcome surprise was the number of sessions designed to get developers thinking about security and privacy in their applications. Check this out (the sessions [...]
Category: Application Security Tags: Application Security, Microsoft, Microsoft Security
by Neil MacDonald | March 10, 2010 | Comments Off
After yesterday’s patch Tuesday release, Microsoft also released this security bulletin affecting IE6 and IE7 (but not IE8). Similar zero day attacks on IE6 made headlines earlier this year when Google and other organizations were attacked and intellectual property stolen. With this latest zero-day, Microsoft reports that targeted attacks have been observed in the wild. [...]
Category: Application Security Endpoint Protection Platform Information Security Microsoft Security Tags: Browser Security, Microsoft, Microsoft Security, Windows
by Neil MacDonald | March 9, 2010 | Comments Off
I thought MS10-015 would be interesting. Microsoft had to stop distributing the patch because machines that were infected with a specific rootkit were blue-screening after application of the patch. Microsoft resumed distribution of the patch last week (2 March 2010). Now, the patch process looks to see if your machine is infected before applying the [...]
Category: Endpoint Protection Platform Information Security Microsoft Security Tags: Microsoft, Microsoft Security, Windows
by Neil MacDonald | February 11, 2010 | 6 Comments
In my post yesterday on MS10-015, I discussed a troublesome kernel-level vulnerability that affects most versions of Windows. Most of you will remember that Hyper-V’s parent partition is based on a slimmed down version of Windows called “Server Core”. Hmmm, could it be that the parent partition is affected? Yup, it’s affected. Don’t let the [...]
Category: Microsoft Security Virtualization Security Tags: Hyper-V, Hypervisor Security, Microsoft, Microsoft Security, Virtualization Security
by Neil MacDonald | February 10, 2010 | 1 Comment
13 bulletins were released Tuesday as part of Microsoft’s regularly scheduled monthly security update cycle – five rated Critical, seven rated Important and one rated Moderate – to address 26 vulnerabilities in Windows and Microsoft Office. There are many vulnerabilities in this set that organizations should be aware of, but it was one of the [...]
Category: Microsoft Security Tags: Microsoft, Microsoft Security, Windows
