We’ve been asked if commercial enterprises can use the SDL documentation that we recently released under a Creative Commons license. It seems that there is some confusion within the IT community regarding our use of a CC license that stipulates non-commercial terms. The purpose of this post is to clarify our intent in releasing the SDL materials un.. more »

Have you ever wondered what is the latest public hotfix or update available for ISA, IAG, TMG or UAG? Good news!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have launched the Update Center for Microsoft Forefront and Related Technologies where you can now go and check for the latest updates related to any forefront product. The site is located at .. more »

Find and manage updates in one place for the Microsoft Forefront family of products and related technologies. more..... more »

Brought to you by Yuri Diogenes and Tom Shinder! http://blogs.technet.com/b/yuridiogenes/archive/2010/07/08/new-forefront-books-by-microsoft-press.aspx HTH, Deb DEBRA LITTLEJOHN SHINDERMVP (Enterprise Security)“MS SECURITY”dshinder@isaserver.org. more..... more »

Check out this announcement of a new UAG book from Ben Ari and Ran Dolev: http://tmgblog.richardhicks.com/2010/09/02/microsoft-forefront-unified-access-gateway-uag-administrators-handbook/ HTH, Deb DEBRA LITTLEJOHN SHINDERMVP (Enterprise Security)“MS SECURITY”dshinder@isaserver.org. more..... more »

Today we are pleased to announce the availability of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) version 2.0. click here to download the tool For those who may be unfamiliar with the tool, EMET provides users with the ability to deploy security mitigation technologies to arbitrary applications. This helps prevent vulnerabilities in those .. more »

A new rogue has started making its appearance from compromised websites: . We received a sample (70be8ca73142922fd78acf2aafa9f141a977f15a) and a URL and began our investigation. Let us say from the beginning that the guys behind this rogue like to copy The similarity between the fake warning pages is so accurate that it can trick even highly .. more »

The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) team has released a new guide: Windows User State Virtualization (USV). The Infrastructure Planning and Design guide for Windows User State Virtualization (USV) helps IT get started with planning a Windows...(read more).. more »

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) posted a public notification last month that requests input on the role the Commission should play in regard to cybersecurity, as part of their project to develop a “cybersecurity roadmap. All of this is part of the National Broadband Plan (NBP), which is the plan for expanding high speed Internet ac.. more »

TMG can be configured in a Mail protection role. In such configurations Forefront Protection for Exchange and Exchange Server (edge transport role) are installed on the same machine as TMG. We have identified problems when installing Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) that was released last week on such deployments. SP1 made some .. more »

Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Beta So now that you’ve downloaded Forefront Endpoint Protection Beta 2010, the next step would be to plan your deployment and get the Forefront Client in your Configuration Manager environment. This post will focus on how to deploy Forefront Endpoint Protection client to a collection of computers using your ex.. more »

notifying customers of a publicly disclosed remote attack vector to a class of vulnerabilities affecting applications that load dynamic-link libraries (DLL’s) in an insecure manner. At that time, we also to help protect systems by disallowing unsafe DLL-loading behavior. Today we wanted to provide an update by answering several questions we have re.. more »

on August 23, we've continued to conduct an investigation not only into our own affected products, but also into how we can best help to protect customers given DLL preloading also affects some third-party applications. We'd like to provide an update on our investigation. First, I want to be clear that Microsoft plans to address those of our .. more »

It's very important your computer, software and browser are running with the latest updates, but it's equally important to be discerning about where your updates are coming from. A perfect example of the latest update scam: Recently, we observed malware writers using compromised Twitter accounts to post the fake tweets about the 'latest update' as .. more »

HP Enterprise Services today announced a new storage management capability that helps clients better organize and manage the explosion of digitized data to gain superior control of their information while improving asset utilization. TheHP Virtualized Storage Service(VSS) can save clients up to . more..... more »

September 1, 2010 – ObserveIT Ltd., the leading provider of User Session Recording software, marked its 50,000th IT admin adoption in August of 2010. more..... more »

San Francisco, CA -August 31, 2010 - Today at VMworld 2010,Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.(Nasdaq: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced the newSecurity Gateway Virtual EditionTM(VE)with VMsafe integration that secures the cloud with the industry's most advanced firewall and protects dynamic virtual .. more »

Interesting find by Richard Hicks. It’s an Excel workbook that includes a number of entries on what you need to do to make sure your UAG arrays stay up and running. One problem with the advice is that it recommends automation in a number of places (using PowerShell, for example) but doesn’t provide any advice on how to do it. In addition, Powe.. more »

HP today announcedHP CloudStart, the industry's first all-in-one solution for deploying an open and flexible private cloud environment within 30 days. Built on anHP Converged Infrastructure, HP CloudStart simplifies and speeds private cloud deployments. Consisting of hardware, software and services, HP CloudStart empowers businesses to deliver .. more »

Of course, it’s always appropriate to put the TMG firewall on the edge of the network – that’s what it was designed for! However, if you have multiple firewalls options on your network, you might want to place your TMG firewall in different locations depending on your requirements. more..... more »