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I am preparing for the NetCetera TekZone Roundtables on "Technology trends 2004 - Security challenges for 2004 and beyond" taking place on Thursday, February 5th 2004, 4pm  at the internetExpo here in Zurich. Talking about security these days should be interesting.

While the industry is in a race protecting their software against exploits, users have to keep updating their systems and educating themselves about new threats / luring attacks. If an evil can convince you (in any how) to run his code on your machine - or even worse, get code to execute without you knowing - you no longer control your system. Certainly a challenge for the less technophile... And a challenge for the industry to make software secure on one side and to help users understand the risks.

So here is my small contribution in spreading the word (regarding MSFT technology & security):

• The Microsoft Security Center
  All about security in Microsoft products
   
• MSDN Microsoft Security Developer Center
  Secure coding for developers (my favorite :)
   
• TechNet Security for IT Pros
  All on keeping your IT infrastructure secure
   
• Windows Update (no comment)
   
• Office Update (no comment)
   
• Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer V1.2
  Useful free tool to analyze multiple security settings on your server / computer
   
• Microsoft ISA Server 2004
  Get the beta of the next gen firewall from Microsoft that does advanced application layer firewalling, VPN, server publishing and web caching.

While reading, I have come across the new image campaign by Microsoft. Cool stuff!