If you are completely new to security and I mean have no idea of what an a attack vector is or how is security related to an oinion then have a look at these links
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/learning/fundamentals/all/default.mspx
Listed below is the Leveling system that Microsoft uses to explain the technical content
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Introductory and overview material. Assumes little or no expertise with topic and covers topic concepts, functions, features, and benefits. |
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Intermediate material. Assumes 100-level knowledge and provides specific details about the topic. |
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Advanced material. Assumes 200-level knowledge, in-depth understanding of features in a real-world environment, and strong coding skills. Provides a detailed technical overview of a subset of product/technology features, covering architecture, performance, migration, deployment, and development. |
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Expert material. Assumes a deep level of technical knowledge and experience and a detailed, thorough understanding of topic. Provides expert-to-expert interaction and coverage of specialized topics |
Being the Technical saviour of your family how many times are you asked: could you please make sure my home PC is secur?. Or I have a new wireless router can you please lock it down?
Now we have the 5min Security advisor that you can steer all of your family to. Give it a go. What the worst that can happen. Apart from you mum changing the password on her machine and then forgetting it. then Calling you at 10:30 pm on a friday night. Apart from that nothing.
5-Minute Security Advisor
Security and Trustworthy Computing are currently among the most important topics for customers on TechNet. The 5-Minute Security Advisor series has been created to help quickly communicate important security topics, tasks, and issues. The advisor will point to the content necessary to go deeper into technical details or into step-by-step, how-to guides.
In this series, a numbering sequence has been used to identify the appropriate audience for the content. There is overlap among the levels.
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Written for the small office, always-on home office, and home user interested in security fundamentals. These advisors focus on issues such as:
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Topics at this level focus on more technical topics for the Small Office / Home Office (SOHO) and power users. Advisors at this level are written to address issues such as:
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Information Technology Professionals (IT Pros) and power users will find information here for securing with larger networks and deeper technical security content. Topics will include:
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IT Pros and network or systems administrators will find topics at this level most helpful. These papers provide an overview of highly technical topics. They are 5-Minute advisors not 5-Day seminars, but they will always contain lots of links to the best technical content available for you to dive deeper into the details. Examples include:
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Firstly if you have no idea what the Microsoft Security response Center is then have a look at this URL.
http://www.microsoft.com/security/msrc/default.mspx
They even have the 10 immutable Laws of Security
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/community/columns/security/essays/10imlaws.mspx?mfr=true
If you havent got time to sit one of the Premier workshops or prefer to learn on your own here are all the links for webcasts and virutal LABS for Securing messenging
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/learning/messageinfrastructure.mspx
If that whet your appetiate then there is a whole list security related pages can Vist on the
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/learning/default.mspx
External threat
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/learning/external/all/default.mspx
Improving the Intelligence of Your Gateway Security
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/learning/gateway.mspx
Securing Internal and External Access to Corporate Resources
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/learning/securingaccess.mspx
So its about 8 degrees here atm , hmm nice and cold. apparently its completely out of charatcer for Seattle to be so cold atm. HA HA err not. Jet lagg hasnt kicked in yet so that is good, main problem is actually getting to sleep and not being on email all night long.. yes I a sad sad email addict.
right some new links comming to this Blog. Ones that will cover common vendors that all my customers use. Of course anything related to MS will be covered here.
This is my first post on my new blog. What will this blog be about. All things MS and All things legal.
