Microsoft wins 2008 Info Security Products Guide Global Product Excellence Awards for ISA Server 2006 and Forefront Security for Exchange Server

Microsoft wins 2008 Info Security Products Guide Global Product Excellence Awards for ISA Server 2006 and Forefront Security for Exchange Server
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Microsoft Acquires Security Firm

Komoku technology will be incorporated into Forefront and Windows Live OneCare.

Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service
PC World
Saturday, March 22, 2008; 2:19 PM

Microsoft hopes to beef up its security capabilities with the acquisition of Komoku, a developer of rootkit detection products, announced last week.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Microsoft plans to add Komoku's technology into its Forefront and Windows Live OneCare products.Forefrontis Microsoft's suite of enterprise security software that includes malware protection for PCs, security tools for Exchange and SharePoint servers, and gateways that secure remote access to corporate data.

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Trend Micro hit by massive Web hack

Security vendor Trend Micro has fallen victim to a widespread Web attack that splashed malicious software onto hundreds of legitimate Web sites in recent days.
A Trend Micro spokesman confirmed that the company's site had been hacked Thursday, saying that the attack took place earlier in the week. "A portion of our site -- some pages were attacked," said Mike Sweeny, a Trend Micro spokesman. "We took the pages down overnight Tuesday night -- and took corrective action."

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Cisco patches two flaws in its Secure Access Control Server

Submitted by Cisconet on Wed, 03/12/2008 - 7:54pm.
Cisco released free software fixes for two sets of vulnerabilities that affect its Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) for Windows User-Changeable Password (UCP) application. The flaws were reported to Cisco by Felix 'FX' Lindner of Recurity Labs.

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Open Day funny Video

Community Open Day –Kuwait

It is our first community event , and really it was amazing one based on the attendees feedback (a round 150 attendees )
Here is some details about the event

http://www.dotnetboom.net/openday/Default.aspx

Security vendors rally around NAP

It is a nice article about NAC solution competition

Security vendors are clamoring to announce their products' compatibility with Microsoft's network access protection, a key security feature of Windows Server 2008.
Foundry Networks

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Microsoft Technology Day

Microsoft Technology Day is being conducted by the Microsoft Experts Community (MSExperts.net) at Kuwait on InfoCenter Dawalia bulding on 30th of march 2008

I will be presenting at the event on the following topics:

1- Microsoft Intelligent application gateway (SSL VPN)


2-Microsoft System Essential 2007