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Rob LabbéNovember 25 I've been Assimilated!!!Well,
Some may say it was only a matter of time, but effective December 4th I'll be a Microsoft employee.
I'm really exited by the oportunity that this presents. As a lot of you know, security is the one thing that I love doing most of all. Now I'll be able to do it full time. And... since I no longer have to do my own accounting.... Perhaps I'll even have time to update this blog ;)
So, what will I be doing... I've joined the ACE team at Microsoft as a Security Consultant. While I've been hired by MS Canada, I'll still report in to the team in Redmond. Never heard of the ACE team, well if it makes you feel better, you're not alone.
The ACE team exists to help customers improve the security of the applications that they write. They do it by helping with threat modeling, code reviews and the like.
The ACE team has produced a number of very usefull *AND FREE* tools to help you write more secure systems. the two big tools are the Threat Assessment and modeling tool (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/security/aa570413.aspx) and the Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/security/aa973814.aspx). I encourage you to check them out!
I've included a link to the ACE team blog on my blogs list if you're interested...
On to a new chapter in my life... Should be a fun time!
February 03 VSTS - What's the point.VSTS... one of those truly "Well its about time" products out of Redmond... While still in Beta 3, and with a few kinks left to work out, is a great product that is long overdue.
There are lots of great blogs from folks talking about how great the source control is, the Methodology support, Testing tools, MSBuild.... and so on, so I won't get into that debate here....
Let me tell you what is really and truly great about VSTS.
For the first time we have a platform that will unify the groups involved in developing quality software. That extends from the developers, to the application architects to the testers, to even include the PMs and the Infastructure Architects (Yes, Infastructure Architects are people too)
For the first time the Infastructure and Solution architects have a tool to document each other's respective sides of the house, and a tool to find the places where the two aren't compatable. Don properly, gone are the days where an application is pushed into production and just not work on the production servers because of configuration differences... gone are the days of racheting down the security on the production servers just to make an application work in the 11th hour.....
About time Microsoft, about time. FinallyWell, yea, word has gotten around... Lorna and I are finally getting around to tying the knot.
I figured I'd use this space to help get information to foks on the great event.....
More to follow. Wow... It's been a whileI am way behind on updating this beast aren't I?
So one of my new years resolutions is to do a better job of updating this thing and sharing information here... It has been way too long.
So where has live been taking me, I've been spending a significant amount of time on VSTS (Visual Studio Team System)
If you're a part of a Microsoft based team of larger than 5 or 10 folks, this really is a product you really need to see.... But I'll post more on that later... I promise..... It is a new year's resolution afterall..... and you can't break those.. Now off to the gym, the grocery store, and eat well. March 11 Stop #8 - IrvineWell, back to OC for stop #8.... Well, after making it to the correct California airport, I hopped the shuttle to the hotel... only to find that they had not reserved a sleeping room for me and no rooms were available. Great. Class in Irvine was really good. We did some more talking about third party tools other then the SA tool (OfficeWriter) and the tool from Cizer(www.cizer.com) came up. I've contacted the reps from Cizer and will be meeting with them in Dallas (next stop) to get a copy of the product and chat with them about where it fits. Look for a preliminary review of the Cizer product in a week or so. Well, next stop is going to be Dallas, back to Texas for me.... You know all this hopping time zones is really startig to get under my skin.... 5 more stops and then home for a break to hang with the family... not that I'm counting. |
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