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Show 006 - An Interview with Michael Howard

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2006-09-28 20:11:47 by rmacmich in The Silver Bullet Security Podcast
...Michael Howard, the Senior Security Program Manager of Microsofts Security Technology Unit. Michael has been at Microsoft since 1992 and discusses what it has been like watching the company come to grips with software security. Michael continues to play a key roll in implementing the Trustworthy Computing Initiative at Microsoft. Gary and...
 
Tags: michael, michael howard, michael continues, michael howards blog, desert island book, desert island, security features, features, trustworthy
 
 
 
 
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Michael Vick's journey from the NFL to a jail cell

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2007-12-11 03:13:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
...Michael Vick had been sentenced to 23 months incarceration for his part in organizing illegal dog fighting and animal abuse. I have never been a star quarterback so I do not know how it feels to go from being a NFL superstar to a Felon, but I bet it can't be easy There's not much upside to this story either. The sentencing Judge, Henry E....
 
Tags: vick, michael vick, client safe, client, time, nfl, federal time, risk, risk management
 
 
 
 
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Vendors aren't changing focus, you were just blissfully unaware

2008-05-08 08:09:41 by HASH0x8902444 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Michael Farnum besides being a comic book nerd , blogs over at ComputerWorld. Michael writes today about his opinion that vendors have changed focus from concentrating on the tech geeks to focusing on the business decision maker. Michael's proof is rather subjective, but revolve around the fact that when he was a geek not in management,...
 
Tags: sales teams, emc sales teams, business, business stakeholder, people, sales people, sales, vendors, michael
 
 
 
 
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Student hacks Broward Schools and accesses personal information

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2008-03-24 13:22:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Michael Wasa, 18, of Tamarac, a search warrant said Evan] Why aren't these computers locked-down? High school students (for the most part) are very "high risk" users. The computers should be well hardened and internet access should be restricted to acceptable site visits He was suspended March 6 pending expulsion, but no charges or arrests...
 
Tags: information, personal information, students, information technology team, school students, school, information security, pinnacle gradebook, pinnacle
 
 
 
 
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700,000 records on stolen CCB server

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2008-04-22 14:57:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Michael Arnold DDS, Michael Cozzi MD, Michael Harper, Midamerica Surgery Center, Milto Cleaners, Mitchell Foster MD, Muncie Cataract & Laser Center, Nancy Zinni MD, Northside Surgical Specialists, Northside Anesthesia Services, Northwest Medical Pain Control, Nufinity, Orthopaedic Supplies Inc., Panchapakesan Harlan MD, Paul Batties MD, Paul...
 
Tags: dds, gary taylor dds, gary hunt dds, lawrence falender dds, joseph meek dds, caryn guba dds, mark ellis dds, sarah akard dds, ccb
 
 
 
 
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Security Thoughts from TechEd 2008

2008-06-26 15:07:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...Michael Howard and Laura Machado de Wright, who both attended and presented at TechEd 2008 in Orlando the week of June 2 nd First up is Laura I have been a Security Program Manager for the last 3 years, working as a security advisor for a variety of products across Microsoft and the last seven months as a member of the SDL policy team It's...
 
Tags: security, numerous developer questions, questions, highly specific questions, requirements, security knowledge, sdl requirements, maturity, security maturity
 
 
 
 
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Fuzz Testing at Microsoft and the Triage Process

2007-09-20 18:52:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...Michael Howard has pointed out before , we do our best to ensure that the SDL incorporates lessons learned from vulnerabilities that required us to release security updates. It turns out that the animated cursor bug patched in MS07-017 had a positive impact on the automatic triaging our fuzz testing tools perform. In this post, I'd like to...
 
Tags: chance exceptions, exceptions, exception handler, exception, divide-by-zero exception, exception code, triage process, process, first-chance exceptions
 
 
 
 
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Sitting on your hands is not an option - FUD, Compliance, what will it take to sell security?

2008-03-13 00:17:43 by HASH0x84729f8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
Michael Farnum has a good post up today about a customer of his over at Accuvant. In a real life reenactment of every security vendors dream (come on, admit it), while the customer was procrastinating about whether to spend the money on security or not they were pwned. Michael says this is the second time this has happened since he has been at...
 
Tags: security breach, security breach scare, security, security breach cost, security purchase, security industry, provide security, industry, real live security
 
 
 
 
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Communicating Risk & Macs Can Do Anything

2008-03-17 13:29:33 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...Michael Schur, a writer and producer for the US version of The Office who goes by Ken Tremendous on the weblog. Turns out Michael is big on the Moneyball Quants and the new class of metrics they use Chicago Tribune: The cold, hard facts might back up Baseball Prospectus opinion that the Mets will beat the Cubs in the NL Championship Series....
 
Tags: information security agency, information security, security, security amrit covers, chicago tribune, junk charts weblog, weblog, long-time chicago tribune, risk