Erez Benari's Blog

While security is on everyone’s mind, some organization with higher than usual security requirements have had some concerns regarding the encryption used in web-based transactions. Everyone knows that SSL encryption is pretty much the default for any web-based connection that requires security, but SSL itself is about much more than simply “have it/don’t have it”.

Windows Azure receives important SOC 2 and CCM security attestations

The System Center 2012 SP1 UR3 package for DPM was re-released on 8-20-13 and fixes the two issues mentioned in our original article here:

By Jacqueline Beauchere, Chief Online Safety Officer, Microsoft

This blog discusses solutions for the two issues,which might be encountered while protecting high churn databases using DPM.

Still Running Windows XP? Upgrade Now to Reduce Security Risks

There are quite a few products that make up the Microsoft Cloud OS vision. Windows Server 2012 R2 is in preview right now and ready for your evaluation.  We also have a strong management platform that make up the System Center family of products. They are designed to have tight integration with the core being Windows Server.

​I have mentioned in a previous blog that the use of the right-to-left-override (U+202E) unicode character is nothing new. This blog also went on to show the various file name tricks used by malware.