This may be deemed an exercise in WTF, but I thought I'd share the tools that I have installed on my system that I can't work without. Some of these help me deal with security issues, some are loosely related to security, and some are just downright Cool...

Mike Howard kindly coded up a neat little tool called DropMyRights (follow this link ) that lets us run an application in a "low-privileged" context - i.e. if you logon to your computer with an account that's a member of the local Administrators group...

Recently I was asked to assist a customer in trying to prevent their sensitive data from walking out on unencrypted media: "By default, encrypted data on NTFS will be decrypted when copied/moved to non-NTFS media. We want a solution so that EFS encrypted...

Customer asked me recently: "Are there any considerations to deploy both RMS/IRM and EFS? As far as I understand, RMS/IRM and EFS can work together." My response was this: No problems of which I'm aware - I've been running the two interdependently for...

I'm a security guy, driven by a long-standing paranoia, who happens to like the feeling that no one can get into my own files. So there. [BTW, the next time someone asks, this is coming to you live from Mike Smith-Lonergan, also known as Mike Lonergan...