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Michael Howard's Web Log

A Simple Software Security Guy at Microsoft!

September 2005 - Posts

Security Smposium @ the PDC Wrap-up
Well, the Professional Developer’s Conference in LA is over (ok, I admit it, I’m late, it finished ages ago) and the Security Symposium we held on the last day was a hit with attendees. I don’t know what experiences you’ve had pulling this kind of thing Read More...
Address Space Layout Randomization for Windows
A small company named Wehnus run by Matt Miller has put together a comprehensive Windows Based host-based intrusion prevention system (HIPS) system called WehnTrust ( http://www.wehnus.com ) that uses Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) among other Read More...
New Security Features in Visual Studio 2005
It's all very well having security tools and technologies within Microsoft, but VS.NET 2005 includes a bunch of these tools we use everday built in. And by built-in, I mean BUILT-IN, as-in, in the UI. No silly command-line settings, you just set the appropriate Read More...
Security Symposium @ the PDC
I've been meaning to write about this, but I've been a little busy of late. On day 4 of the PDC (this Friday) we're holding a Security Symposium. The morning is 100% focused on the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), including threat modeling (I'll Read More...
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