For the past three months I have attended and precipitated in three Security Conferences and three Security Workshops. This week it’s: Secure Architecture for Network and Data Infrastructure Accelerated Bootcamp and it is extremely well thought out and informative. There are eighty people in our workshop and it’s just three miles from my house.
Microsoft has been the host and benefactor of most of these offerings, for that I am grateful and much more Secure. It’s over a year since I got an email from Bill Gates (sorry it’s taken me this long to get back to you Bill, but I’ve been busy) where he pledged to make Security a priority for his software company. They have, and anyone who has been paying attention will have benefited from their efforts. From Windows Update to WindowsXP SP2 for the home user and SMS Server for the Corporate Networks and books, white papers, webcasts, seminars, DVD’s, and an ever growing community of blogs.
Now the onus is on us to write secure code and build secure networks, we have the tools and the best practices to accomplish what many have said can never be done.