Posts Tagged ‘security’

February 24 2010

Learn about DirectAccess and Forefront UAG at TechEd

Countdown to TechEd – 4 days to go.
T minus 4 for the biggest tech event in Dubai — TechEd Middle East 2010.
Here’s a reminder of the session that I will be speaking at. Hope to see you there!
Session: SIA308 – Secure Remote Access with Unified Access Gateway and Direct Access
Track: Security, Identity and Access [...]

February 18 2010

Security event at Qatar, February 17

Microsoft Qatar did a Security event yesterday at the Four Seasons Hotel, Doha. We started off with an enthusiastic audience of 70+ people.

We kicked off with a presentation on Microsoft Business Ready Security by good ol’ David Maskell, Security SSP – Microsoft Gulf, followed by technical demos.

Fadel Lubbos, Senior Consultant from Information & Communication [...]

February 12 2010

Security session at TechEd Dubai

I’m doing a breakout session at the Microsoft TechEd in Dubai. Here are the details:
Session: SIA308 – Secure Remote Access with Unified Access Gateway and Direct Access
Track: Security, Identity and Access Speaker: Shijaz Abdulla When: Wed, Mar 03, 2010 (13:30 – 14:30) | Breakout Session [...]

January 10 2010

Should one change the credit card PIN?

I recently got a new VISA credit card from a bank in Qatar. The  system-generated PIN for the card came in a tamper-evident envelope by postal mail along with the card.
Following a well-known security best practice, I decided to change the PIN on the card immediately. So today, I went to my nearest ATM machine [...]

November 28 2009

Threat Management Gateway 2010 now available

Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway has been released to market on November 16, 2009 after completing three beta releases and receiving extensive customer feedback.
You can download the trial version of Threat Management Gateway here.
From the Forefront TMG team’s blog:
“Forefront TMG is a Secure Web Gateway (SWG) that improves security enforcement by integrating multiple detection technologies [...]

November 9 2009

Forefront Client Security beats Symantec, McAfee on VB100 test

 
[Source: Virus Bulletin - virusbtn.com]
Forefront is in pretty good shape here, especially when you compare it with McAfee, Symantec and the likes. Forefront also did well on the VB100 list, meaning it was able to detect 100% of the WildList malware samples without any false positives.