VSTS 2008 has a great recording tool that allows you to create web test simply by recording your web traffic in the browser. But what if your application doesn’t use web browser, but still communicates with servers using HTTP or HTTPS protocols (such...

TechNet Webcast : Configuring with Least Privilege in SQL Server 2008 (Level 300) Tuesday, June 02, 2009 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Presenter: Varun Sharma, Security Engineer, Microsoft Corporation Overview : With SQL injection...

TechNet Webcast : Fundamentals of Third-Party Security Management (Level 300) Monday, June 01, 2009 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Presenter : Gerard Morisseau, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation Overview: In this webcast...

Hello Everyone! My name is Shawn Rabourn and I am a Senior Security Consultant with ACE (Assessment, Consulting and Engineering) Services, a part Microsoft IT's Information Security (InfoSec) group. Sounds like a mouthful, I know. Really, that is just...

This is Rob Cooper, Senior Engineer for ACE Infrastructure (also known internally as ICE for you William Gibson fans). Thanks to Irfan Chaudhry, Director of the ACE Team, for giving us a good overview and history of ACE and how ACE’s role has expanded...

When I first joined Microsoft IT, I was intrigued by the concept of offering security assessment as an optional service to the business. I was even more surprised to see how enthusiastically the business had embraced the concept. You see, like many security...