BlueHat

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.

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.

Inside the MAPP program

Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Handle: Cluster IRL: Maarten Van Horenbeeck Rank: Senior Program Manager Likes: Slicing covert channels, foraging in remote memory pools, and setting off page faults Dislikes: The crackling sound of crypto breaking, warm vodka martni Hi everyone, Maarten here - my team manages the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) at Microsoft.

• Defense-in-depth
• Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP)
• Mitigations

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.

• BlueHat Prize
• Community-based Defense
• Mitigations
• Security Ecosystem
• Security Research

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?

• BlueHat Prize
• EcoStrat
• MSRC Ecosystem Strategy
• Security Ecosystem
• Security Research

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.

• BlueHat Security Briefings
• Community-based Defense
• EcoStrat
• MSRC Ecosystem Strategy
• Security Assurance
• Security Ecosystem

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.

• BlueHat Security Briefings

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.

• BlueHat Security Briefings

Evolving to meet future challenges

Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Growth and change can come in big doses or small increments. That can be professional or organizational growth or technical or societal change. Since we started doing BlueHat waaay back in 2005, I’ve seen some significant change at Microsoft, experienced a fair bit of professional and personal growth, and witnessed stunning technical and social change.

• BlueHat Security Briefings

Announcing BlueHat v11: We fight for the user!

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

It seems like we only just had BlueHat v10, but already BlueHat v11 is less than a month away. Our schedule is ready, the banners are printed, and now seems like a great time to give some more detail on what’s coming up. As you probably know already, BlueHat is an invitation-only conference where security experts get to mingle with Microsoft’s own security team and core product groups.

• BlueHat Security Briefings