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March 2009 - Posts

Akshay’s Uncertainty Principle: Observing Some Metrics Changes Them
You’ve probably heard of the famous  Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle  in Quantum physics. It states “The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa.” --Heisenberg, uncertainty Read More...
Vulnerabilities in Web Applications due to improper use of Crypto – Part 4
Digital signature is a cryptographic mechanism that provides three security services; data origin authentication, data integrity and non repudiation [1]. Verification of a digital signature using a public key, gives the verifier proof, that the signature Read More...
Performance Development lifecycle for IT - Part 3
This is the continuation of the previous posts on PDL-IT ( part-1 , part-2 ). Part-1 consisted of basic overview of PDL-IT whereas in Part-2 action items proposed by PDL-IT during Envision and Design phase of SDLC were discussed. This post consists  Read More...
Performance Development lifecycle for IT - Part 2
As a follow-up post to PDL-IT part-1 , this is the part-2 of PDL-IT.  In this post I would discuss the details about the action items proposed by PDL-IT during Envision and Design phase of SDLC. The rest of the phases would be covered in the subsequent Read More...
Response to InfoSec X Prize Part 1
So I’ve been quite amazed by the amount of discussion and feedback i have received from colleagues and peers on my original post on creating fundamental change through competition. I will be posting some of the written replies that I received and which Read More...
Performance Development life cycle for IT – Part 1
Microsoft ACE team has been involved in performance testing and tuning of web applications within Microsoft for more than ten years and for external customers for more than three years. Over these years of experience in performance testing and tuning, Read More...
Baking Security In: A Comic Strip View of SDL
So how do you take your average developer who scoffs at security from the careless and brash aka Kevin,  to the poster child  for good development practices aka  Kevlarr. Well, the Microsoft SDL team has the answer for you. Read more… - Read More...
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