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BlueHat: Something Old, Something New, All Blue

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Handle: k8e IRL: Katie Moussouris Rank: Senior Security Strategist Lead, Head of Microsoft’s Security Community and Strategy Team Likes: Cool vulns, BlueHat, soldering irons, quantum teleportation Dislikes: Rudeness, socks-n-sandals, licorice Reflecting on my past five years at Microsoft (I know! How time flies!), I can see with fresh perspective just how far we’ve come, while staying true to our goals of helping to protect customers and the computing ecosystem.

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The BlueHat Prize V1.0 – And the Winners Are…

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Handle: k8e IRL: Katie Moussouris Rank: Senior Security Strategist Lead, Head of Microsoft’s Security Community and Strategy Team Likes: Cool vulns, BlueHat, soldering irons, quantum teleportation Dislikes: Rudeness, socks-n-sandals, licorice As we wrap up the first BlueHat Prize contest, we wanted to share what we learned while running the first competition, from a major vendor, offering a large cash prize for defensive security research.

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The BlueHat Prize Survey at BlackHat – Submit Security Defense Questions for a Chance to Win $5000

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Handle: k8e IRL: Katie Moussouris Rank: Senior Security Strategist Lead, Head of Microsoft’s Security Community and Strategy Team Likes: Cool vulns, BlueHat, soldering irons, quantum teleportation Dislikes: Rudeness, socks-n-sandals, licorice As we inch closer to Black Hat in Vegas this year, we wanted to kick off the ten-day countdown to our first BlueHat Prize contest winners’ announcement with an invitation to those attending Black Hat.

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BlueHat Prize v1.0 Finalists – One of These People Will Win $200,000 (AKA Mad Loot)!

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Handle: k8e IRL: Katie Moussouris Rank: Senior Security Strategist Lead, Head of Microsoft’s Security Community and Strategy Team Likes: Cool vulns, BlueHat, soldering irons, quantum teleportation Dislikes: Rudeness, socks-n-sandals, licorice When we announced the BlueHat Prize on August 3, 2011, we did something that no major vendor had ever done before – offer a large cash prize for defensive security research.

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BlueHat Prize entries: The final tally is…

Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Handle: k8e IRL: Katie Moussouris Rank: Senior Security Strategist Lead, Head of Microsoft’s Security Community and Strategy Team Likes: Cool vulns, BlueHat, soldering irons, quantum teleportation Dislikes: Rudeness, socks-n-sandals, licorice The entries are in! After a last-minute wave of fresh entries to the first-ever BlueHat Prize, the final count for this year’s contest stands at twenty qualified proposals.

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Peace Games - BlueHat Prize Update and Countdown

Monday, March 26, 2012

Handle: k8e IRL: Katie Moussouris Rank: Senior Security Strategist Lead, Head of Microsoft’s Security Community and Strategy Team Likes: Cool vulns, BlueHat, soldering irons, quantum teleportation Dislikes: Rudeness, socks-n-sandals, licorice In the film WarGames, an artificial intelligence program named Joshua asked the main character, a teenage hacker, the now famous question, “Shall we play a game?

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Blue Dawn

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Handle: k8e IRL: Katie Moussouris Rank: Senior Security Strategist Lead, Head of Microsoft’s Security Community and Strategy Team Likes: Cool vulns, BlueHat, soldering irons, quantum teleportation Dislikes: Rudeness, socks-n-sandals, licorice In the film Red Dawn,the United States was invaded by Communists, forcing ordinary citizens and soldiers alike to take up arms and fight for their freedom.

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Beliefs from an Ex-softy

Thursday, November 03, 2011

Jared Pfost here. I’m fired up to present at BlueHat. I really appreciate Noelle reaching out so it was a no brainer when asked to spin up a blog post. One thing that keeps popping up is my status as a former blue badge. Actually I’m a former twice over. One tour pre bubble and one post, or I like to think of it as pre/post the TWC memo.

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BlueHat v11

Thursday, November 03, 2011

Jeremiah Grossman here. BlueHat is one of my favorite conferences of the year, and it’s one of the few I’ve consistently kept coming back to. The organizers put together an amazing event with consistently top-quality content, where the attendees are not only security people, but a legion of software developers who have a genuine interest in security – because their employer (Microsoft) does.

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