Now that Windows 7 is available, a recent blog by Chester Wisnieski (who works at security vendor Sophos), entitled Windows 7 vulnerable to 8 out of 10 viruses , which has stirred some interest. Here's a quick summary for those who missed Chester's blog...

User Account Control is one of those Windows features that evokes a number of different responses from folks. Most people appreciate the enhanced security UAC offers, but we did hear complaints about the high number of UAC prompts in Windows Vista. This...

We have been working in partnership with our independent software vendor (ISV) community to move the ecosystem to a set of new application programming interfaces (APIs) that many ISVs use to report status to Security Center (integrated within Action Center...

Here’s the last of the security stories from the RSA show floor. To wrap things up we asked John (JG) Chirapurath (Director, Identity & Security Business Group) to give us a quick rundown on Microsoft Forefront for Business Ready Security and how...

Here is another story from a Microsoft Program Manger discussing their favorite things in Windows 7. This time it is Eric Lawrence (Senior Program Manager on the Internet Explorer Team) to talk about his favorite security features in Internet Explorer...

While walking the show floor here at RSA, I ran into Steve Riley, who’s an incredibly passionate and knowledgeable Security Evangelist (or officially “Senior Technical Evangelist”) in Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing organization. He’s a well respected...

The buzz at RSA around Windows 7 has been tremendous. Yesterday, in his keynote, Scott Charney (Corporate VP Trustworthy Computing) talked about AppLocker and how it helps ensure that only known, trusted software is run within an organization’s desktop...

Not sure how many of you are familiar wtih TechNet Radio, but I did a piece for them the other day that I encourage you to go check out. It's a quick interview on BitLocker Drive Encryption. In it, I get asked about BitLocker not only in Windows Vista...