Security for Canadian Developers : Announcements

Security Development Lifecycle Webcast

jldavid — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:55:00 GMT

On June 20th, we will be putting on a webcast entitled "The Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) - Continuous Improvement and Demonstrated Results". The Security Development Lifecycle is a process that is constantly evolving and has two main goals: reducing coding and design defects, and reduce the severity of defects that are remaining. Security expert Michael Howard has written a great MSPress book and MSDN article on the subject if you are interested. Here is the abstract for the webcast:

"Microsoft's SDL reflects the knowledge and best practices learned from focused security efforts across all phases of the software development lifecycle and is a mechanism to ensure continuous improvement and demonstrated results. This session provides an overview of what the SDL means for you and your customers, and explains what's new in the SDL. In addition, the session details Microsoft's commitment to helping customers emulate our processes and build more secure software, including the resources we have available today."

Developer Windows Vista Security Webcast in May

jldavid — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:19:00 GMT

As you can tell, there is a lot of activity going on with regards to Windows Vista. On May 23rd, we will be running a webcast entitled "Writing Secure Applications for Windows Vista". Here is an abstract of the presentation:

Have you tested your application on Windows Vista? If not, it’s important that you do as it will impact the experience your users will have with the software you have developed. This is especially the case if your application writes to the registry or requires elevated privileges.

The primary objective of this session is to provide developers with the necessary knowledge to successfully write secure application on Windows Vista and get familiarized with Vista’s new security model and features such as Least-privileged User Accounts (LUA), virtualization, and the User Account Control (UAC). This session will be of interest to all
Windows developers.

Value proposition:
Windows Vista incorporates many new and innovative security features. This session will provide the attendees with the following information:

How Vista’s security enhancements may affect their application development environment
How to successfully write Windows Vista applications leveraging features such as UAC
The use of tools such as FxCop and PreFAST to identify compatible issues in existing applications or in the development process.

Call to Action:

Start developing secure applications on Windows Vista
Use tools like FxCop to find compatible issues with existing applications or new applications in development
Take advantage of the new security tidbits added to Windows Vista

To sign up for the event, click on this link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032336165&EventCategory=4&culture=en-CA&CountryCode=CA

IT Professional Security Webcasts

jldavid — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:17:00 GMT

Rodney Buike, my counterpart on the IT Pro team has set up a security webcast series which may be interesting to you. Here is a description of the series and the events:

With every new OS release security is improved and refined and with Windows Vista this is still the case. There are a number of new and improved security tools and features built into Windows Vista, and a number of new tools and resources to integrate Vista into your existing environment. Learning what these features are, how to plan for them, deploy them and manage them along with what resources are available to help is crucial to a successful deployment.

What’s New in Vista Security - April 25th 2007
With all the new eye candy in Vista, the security features often get overlooked. The first session will look at the new features, what they are, where they would be used and most importantly why you should consider implementing them. At the end of this session you should have a good understanding of some kernel level changes and features such as User Access Control, upgrades to the Windows Vista Firewall and Security Center, BitLocker and IE7 and be ready to start implementing a secure Vista deployment.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032336945&Culture=en-CA

Manage Vista Security With Group Policy - May 9th 2007
Managing Vista via Group Policy has been improved. With over 2400 GPO settings you have more control than ever before and tools like the GPO Accelerator can help speed the implementation of GPOs over your Vista computers and ease management of BitLocker on mobile PCs. This session will start by giving you a refresh of GPO and OU structures and get you up to speed on the new GPO settings, the GPO Accelerator and other resources and how they can be used to lockdown and secure your environment.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032336947&Culture=en-CA

Manage Advanced Security Features - May 23rd 2007
On top of the new GPO settings there are some new, more advanced, security features in Vista. BitLocker is one of the popular features and we will take a deep dive into BitLocker covering TPM, key backup, management via group policy and configuration will be covered in this session. We will also take a look at improvements to the Encrypted File System (EFS) and Rights Management Services (RMS).
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032336949&Culture=en-CA

We hope you can attend...cheers!

ASP.NET AJAX Security Webcast

jldavid — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:45:00 GMT

Be sure to check out our latest security webcast this Wednesday. Here is the abstract: ASP.NET AJAX is a powerful framework for creating interactive and highly-personalized Web experiences that work across all the most popular browsers. Like any other frameworks, there are security considerations you need to take into account. In this session, you will learn the core security concepts and principles surrounding the ASP.NET AJAX framework and learn how to implement them in your existing applications.

Here is the link to register for the webcast:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032329023&EventCategory=4&culture=en-CA&CountryCode=CA

Hope to see you there!