Good day, Paul Cooke here. The Windows Vista Security blog has been a great avenue for us to talk with you about what has made Windows Vista the most secure client operating system Microsoft has ever delivered. However, hindsight is always 20/20...

Good day, Paul Cooke here. The Microsoft Malware Protection Center has published volume five of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report. If you have not taken a look at this report before, I urge you to go download it from http://www.microsoft...

Good day, Paul Cooke here. I am in Barcelona getting set up for some sessions at TechEd-EMEA in Barcelona. The weather was a bit dicey for parts of yesterday but today is clear and beautiful. I've got two full sessions and a bit part in a third where...

Good day! Paul Cooke, Director of Enterprise Security, here. Orlando entertained close to 9,500 customers, partners, and staff at the first Microsoft Tech·Ed for IT Professionals. For four days, IT Professionals from around the world experienced in...

Hi, Austin Wilson here. Recently there have been some questions raised about the susceptibility of Windows Vista to malware – specifically, that it’s more susceptible to malware than Windows 2000. I’d like to show why we reject that claim. We study the...

Hi: Russ Humphries here. There’s been a lot of attention this week paid to memory attacks against disk encryption technologies and I wanted to provide some commentary and thoughts. The focus of these conversations is centering on investigating the contents...

Hi, Austin Wilson here. Now that Windows Vista has been available to business customers for more than a year, it’s a good time to go back and look at how it’s holding up from a security perspective. I think that it’s fair to say that Windows Vista is...

I am Craig Spiezle, Director of Online Security and Safety for Microsoft Internet Explorer. While I am new to this role, I’ve been at Microsoft for over 10 years, and very involved on usability and online safety, helping users realize their potential...

So I am reading a lot of stories that seem to have confused, or incorrectly aligned, Windows Vista driver signing and Kernel Patch Protection technologies. Whilst driver signing and KPP are complimentary, they are not conjoined. Driver signing provides...

Why Vista is better off without setuid or sudo....

Hi, it’s Scott Field, Windows Security Architect, again. Microsoft recently became aware of a third party kernel mode driver named “Atsiv” which provides a deliberate means of loading code that conflicts with the Kernel Mode Code Signing (KMCS) policy...

Hi – everyone! I’m David Cross the Director of Program Management for Windows Security. It has been a while since I last posted to this blog during the Windows Vista beta cycle on UAC. I thought a new posting from myself was long overdue and I have...

Most anyone who has been in the security industry for a while is familiar with the term ‘security theater’. It’s a term used for security that is about show, rather than substance. Since I became the Product Manager for Windows Vista security I have...

Just as he did at the 90-day mark , Jeff Jones, a Microsoft Director from the Trustworthy Computing group and frequent blogger on security topics, has done a comparison of vulnerabilities discovered in Windows Vista versus other operating systems in their...

I’m Avi Ben-Menahem, the lead program manager for the PKI and smart card technologies in Windows Security. The PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) team in Microsoft is responsible for the different technologies related to digital certificates, these technologies...

We’re back! You’ve probably noticed that the blog hasn’t been updated much lately. We’re going to change that and you can expect to see regular posts again. Windows Vista has been publicly available for over 100 days now, and we think we’re holding up...

We have identified an issue with version 1.1 of the Windows Vista Security Guide, which caused some of the group policy objects to not be created correctly. If you have downloaded version 1.1, which was available for download from December 4, 2006 through...

Microsoft’s Solution Accelerator – Security and Compliance team is pleased to announce the release of the Windows Vista Security Guide , which is now available for downloading. The Windows Vista Security Guide provides IT Professionals like you with...

I’m Chas Jeffries, and I’m the lead program manager for Windows Security Center (WSC) for Windows Vista. As I write this, we are working hard to prepare for the RTM release of Windows Vista. The past year has been an exciting one for the WSC team. We...

Microsoft’s hard work in the area of security for the soon-to-be-released Windows Vista operating system is paying dividends for our customers, partners and – it seems – members of the blogging community! http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=141 http://blogs...

One of the favorite enterprise features of Microsoft® Windows Vista™, USB device installations, gets even better in RC1. You may have heard stories of some IT departments going so far as to pour glue into USB ports in an attempt comply with data protection...

The good news: The Windows Vista Security Guide Beta is now live! You can download it from https://connect.microsoft.com/InvitationUse.aspx?ProgramID=820&InvitationID=VSG-P74P-BFTH&SiteID=14 at any time during the three-week beta period. The...

As you may have heard by now, Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is complete! See the announcement from Platforms and Services Co-President Jim Allchin. If you’ve been waiting for a Release Candidate to start your testing, the time is now. Since...

This week I’m at the inaugural Security Standard conference in Boston Massachusetts. Security Standard is a new executive-level security conference designed for CISOs, CSOs, CIOs, VPs and Directors of IT. The principal sponsors for the event this year...

We have an update on the Windows Vista Security Guide we announced last month. We’re far enough into the development process to release a public Beta and accept feedback from internal and external reviewers. We’d like to invite you to both download the...