Security Tools

Kathy Shieh here, I am the US Dev Lead for the Information Security Tools team which means I manage the developers and testers (in the US and in Beijing). I have been at Microsoft for just over 10 years. “Ugh - I’ll never be able to finish all this work...

Raju Bhan here… I’m the Senior Security PM in Information Security Tools Team at Microsoft. Before choosing to be a PM, I was a developer and one of my projects was AutoConsistency Manager. AutoConsistency was all about ensuring Identity Consistency across...

Syam Pinnaka here, I am a Senior Developer on the Information Security Tools team focused mainly on building identity management software using Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (more info about FIM can be found here and well be talking about the work...

Syed Aslam Basha here…..I am a tester on the Information Security Tools team. There is a new build of CAT.NET Version 1.1.1.9 now available for download on MSDN ( 32 bit here and 64 bit here ). We recommend *ALL* users upgrade to this latest release,...

Vineet Batta here…..I am senior software development engineer in Information Security Tools team at Microsoft. Today I am going to share my experiences on encrypting data at rest.  Most organizations want to secure their HBI (High Business Impact...

Marius Grigoriu here… I’m the Product Manager for Risk Tracker and parts of the Connected Information Security Framework, some of the software we’re building for Microsoft Information Security and that we will frequently mention on this blog. The other...

Randy Evans here…I am a Principal Architect on the Information Security Tools team. During the Risk Tracker project (something well be talking more about in the coming weeks), we found that a natural hierarchy of roles was inherent in the RBA authorization...

Syed Aslam Basha here…..I am a tester on the Information Security Tools team. As such I often find myself needing to test new tools being developed that plug-in to Visual Studio. Most of us have probably done some debugging, but debugging an Add-in in...

Mark Curphey here …(@curphey on Twitter) A few months ago I got an opportunity to work on a collaborative security book for O’Reilly called Beautiful Security . The concept was to gather together some folks who to share their thoughts on information security...

Mark Curphey here (Follow me using @curphey on Twitter ). June is a busy time of year around MSFT. For most teams you have a pretty good idea about your budget for the next year (July – July) and the end of year performance review cycle kicks in. You...

Nawal Kishore Gupta here. I am a developer on the Information Security Tools team focused on building host security assessment tools. IIS: Admin Base Objects (ABO) ABO is the most powerful way to control the IIS meta-base settings on different IIS Versions...

Syed Aslam Basha here. I am a tester on the Information Security Tools team and responsible for testing CAT.NET. You can run CAT.NET as; A Visual studio add-in From Command prompt As an FXCop rule Lastly, integrated into VSTF Team build as an MSBuild...