The debate about UAC and circumventing the prompt continues... From my perspective it's more a misunderstanding at this point than anything that merits any analysis... Look...between you and me...malware writers are much more talented than anyone's giving them credit for... Here are the current posts that present the story "security flaw"
My latest article was published online today - it's an overview of new security features added into Windows 7 and some of the refinements to UAC and others. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.05.win7.aspx I'm really excited about AppLocker... If anyone wants to test it out in your organization...I'm game to help... This is
The storm seems to have subsided once again regarding UAC in Windows 7. Microsoft announced that they've fixed the problem and the world is content with that explanation. Personally, I think it might be the eye of the storm because I know there must be a security researcher or two waiting to once again find a "HUGE security flaw in Windows
After watching months of favorable UAC press, I couldn't resist commenting on the recent negative press that's been swirling around UAC. Just so everyone knows, I am an expert on UAC. I worked as a Program Manager on the UAC during Windows Vista and spent almost 6 years on the Windows Security team. Here's a video of one of my talks about
I don't know about you but I'm interested in figuring out what applications I'm using and what else might be running on my system. I'm going to describe ways to figure that out in a series of blog posts. The first way is to turn on Process Auditing on your system and checkwhat processes are created in your audit log. Here's how you
While I was at Microsoft I wrote a lot of documentation on all kinds of different technologies - after all that's what Program Managers do. Of all the whitepapers, KBs, and everything else I wrote - my favorite thing to write was always a magazine article. There's nothing like holding a magazine with your work in it - hopefully I'll get
Well, if you're going to start a blog, you've got to have a first post. This is mine. For those of you who don't know me (not you, Mom) I'll tell you a little about my focus for this blog. After spending almost 6 years working for Microsoft in the Windows Security team, this blog is my chance to help people use the security technologies