Microsoft at RSA Conference 2008

By Jeff Jones, Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Yesterday was a busy day, so I got a bit behind with my updates on RSA, but I wanted to post about the Microsoft keynote, in addition to the others I attended. The format was a fireside chat, with...

By Jeff Wettlaufer, Sr. Technical product manager, Microsoft System Center Hi everyone, my name is Jeff Wettlaufer, and I am the Sr. Technical product Manager for System Center Configuration Manager. This week at RSA, Microsoft System Center will...

By Jeff Jones, Microsoft Trustworthy Computing In the past, I haven't always stayed to hear the Crypto panel, but based upon the excellent one this year, I'll definitely include it in my plans going forward. If you want to hear an overview of what...

By Simon Vining, Senior Product Manager, Identity and Access In my work for the identity and access team, I’m frequently asked what’s “new” in WS08 that delivers on Microsoft’s vision for end-to-end integrated identity and access? The short answer...

By Manu Namboodiri, Director of Product Marketing, BitArmor Systems, Inc. At BitArmor, we have been talking about data-centric security for a while now. We know that data centricity is not only the future of security – it’s the future of IT (we...

By Jason Yuan, McAfee Group Product Manager for Virtualization Hello from Moscone Center , San Francisco, where it is the third day of RSA Conference, 2008. There ’ s a lot of talk these days about virtualization. A lot of talk. Why all the excitement...

By John “JG” Chirapurath, Director, Identity & Access Marketing JG here, from the identity and access team at Microsoft. As you probably remember, last year at RSA Conference USA, Microsoft announced availability of Identity Lifecycle Manager...

By David Ladd, Principal Security Program Manager, Security Engineering and Community (SEC) Hi there – Dave Ladd from the Microsoft SDL Team here... Earlier this morning I attended a panel session at RSA entitled “Software Assurance: Driving Global...

By Peter S. Tippett, Vice-President, Security Services, Verizon Business Scott Charney and Craig Mundie of Microsoft recently discussed (“Establishing End to End Trust,” and RSA keynote ) potentially significant security benefits of new identity...

By David Burt, Product Manager, Security and Access Products Hi, my name is David Burt on the Forefront team. Seven weeks ago, Windows Server 2008 officially launched, and with that Network Access Protection (NAP) was officially released to market...

By Doug Leland, General Manager Identity and Access Business Group As general manager for the identity and access group, in my day-to-day work I speak with a broad range of customers – from small businesses to very large enterprises and across the...

By Paul Nicholas, Microsoft’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Paul Nicholas with Microsoft’s Critical Infrastructure Protection team here… At noon today I will be participating in a dialogue on the initial findings and lessons learned from...

By Jeff Jones, Microsoft Following RSA President Art Coviello on the keynotes this morning was John Thompson, CEO of Symantec. The topic of the keynote was " Information Centric Security: The Next Wave. " On one hand, this was one of the more interesting...

By Craig Spiezle, Director, Windows Security & Privacy Product Management I would like to welcome you to RSA. Just a month ago Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 for developers. Internet Explorer 8 expands on Microsoft's security and...

By David Burt, Microsoft Hi, my name is David Burt on the Forefront team. Today at the RSA conference in San Francisco, Microsoft revealed the public beta of its latest addition to the Forefront security products line, an integrated security system...

By Dan Wolff, McAfee Hello from Moscone Center , San Francisco, where it is the third day of RSA Conference, 2008. There is no shortage of Network Access Control (NAC) solutions in the market today, and Gartner states that the market is immature...

By Craig H. Wittenberg, Architect, IDA Technical Strategy Hi, I’m Craig Wittenberg, an architect for Microsoft’s identity and access technical strategy, and I was hoping to give you a little more information and context about the U-Prove technology...

By Jeff Jones, Microsoft Though the tutorial sessions began Sunday and ran through today, the RSA Conference Welcome reception kicked things off officially on the show floor this evening. I arrived late this afternoon, checked into my hotel and made...

By Brandon Baker, Microsoft Hi Brandon Baker here, and as the lead security engineer for Hyper-V I’ve been heads-down in this technology for many years. I’d like to take a moment and share some of my thoughts and experiences on a topic near and dear...

With less than a week until RSA Conference 2008 , I want to kick off the Microsoft RSA 2008 site and invite you to come back here frequently during the event to share our viewpoint of RSA this year. As we have been in the past several years, Microsoft...