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Threat Complexity Requires New Levels of Collaboration

Monday, July 27, 2009

When complex security issues that affect multiple vendors arise, calling them “challenging” is an understatement. We created the Microsoft Vulnerability Research Program (MSVR) to meet those challenges, learn from those experiences and strengthen the ties of our community of defenders across the industry in the process. As the state of software security matures beyond straightforward issues such as buffer overflows and elevation of privilege, we are working diligently towards a new level of cross-industry collaboration on a scale never seen before.

The year-end review – well, sort of :)

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Handle: Cap’n Steve IRL: Steve Adegbite Rank: Senior Security Program Manager Lead Likes: Reverse Engineering an obscene amount of code and ripping it up on a snowboard Dislikes: Not much but if you hear me growl…run Hey! It’s that time of year again for all of us to pack up and head out to the desert to reconnect, discuss, and plan for the future, or at least what we think will be the future of security.

Black Hat USA: Hoping what happens in Vegas doesn’t actually stay in Vegas…

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

** Handle:** Security Blanki IRL: Sarah Blankinship Rank: Senior Security Strategist Lead Likes: Vuln wrangling, teams of rivals, global climate change - the hotter the better Dislikes: Slack jawed gawkers (girls are geeks too!), customers @ risk, egos This week our team is preparing to travel to Black Hat USA in Las Vegas Nevada, a hotspot (literally and figuratively), and one of the largest gatherings of security professionals in the world.

心の会合: The Gathering

Friday, July 17, 2009

Handle: Cap’n Steve IRL: Steve Adegbite Rank: Senior Security Program Manager Lead Likes: Reverse Engineering an obscene amount of code and ripping it up on a snowboard Dislikes: Not much but if you hear me growl…run Konnichiwa! I guess you are wondering

A Brussels retrospective from Oahu

Thursday, June 11, 2009

** Handle:** Security Blanki IRL: Sarah Blankinship Rank: Senior Security Strategist Lead Likes: Vuln wrangling, teams of rivals, global climate change - the hotter the better Dislikes: Slack jawed gawkers (girls are geeks too!), customers @ risk, egos Aloha from the Shakacon III, a security conference held each year in lovely Honolulu, Hawaii!

Announcing the BlueHat Security Forum: EU Edition

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Handle: C-Lizzle IRL: Celene Temkin Rank: Program Manager 2 & BlueHat Project Manager Likes: Culinary warfare, BlueHat hackers and responsible disclosure Dislikes: Acts of hubris, MySpace, orange mocha Frappaccinos! Hey folks! I know this is typically the time of year when birds are chirping, the rain is _supposed _to be letting up, and those of you in the BlueHat network who are normally invited to attend the Spring BlueHat conference are asking yourselves, “Why did MSRC start doing the con only once a year?

Chills and Thrills at FIRST

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Sveika! Hey Steve here, been a while since I posted on the EcoStrat blog. With all the security events that happened during the latter half of 2008, I have been very focused on working with the security update releases and Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP). Handle: Cap’n Steve IRL: Steve Adegbite

Gone is the era of yes/no questions

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

It used to be easy to be in the security industry. All you had to do is develop products that needed to say “nay” or “yay” on a given content and “bless” it to be secure or not. That is so 2007… As we have been witnessing during a turbulent 2008 (and yes – it actually started in 2007…) nowadays the ability to decide whether a given content (note the distinction between content and file…) is malicious or not is much more complicated.

Constants and Change

Monday, February 02, 2009

Microsoft has been talking about community-based defense for some time now. This week, I want to provide a personal dimension to the campaign, and give an update on recent activities. Curiously, as I started to write this post, a couple of phrases popped up, which despite being somewhat trite, seemed appropriate – “change is constant” and “the more things change the more they stay the same.

MS08-067: Example of Need for Increased Collaboration

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Handle: Cap’n Steve IRL: Steve Adegbite Rank: Senior Security Program Manager Lead Likes: Reverse Engineering an obscene amount of code and ripping it up on a snowboard Dislikes: Not much but if you hear me growl…run You’ve probably heard that we released an out-of-band Security Bulletin for a vulnerability in Windows (MS08-067).