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  • 2005-04-14:

    PKI in the News
    Diffie: Infrastructure a disaster in the making

    Part 2: Diffie, now chief security officer, vice president and a fellow at Sun Microsystems, explains why Windows' spread into critical infrastructure is dangerous and how use of elliptical curve cryptography will grow with the proliferation of smaller, integrated mobile devices.
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    PKI in the News
    Hellman: Authentication at every access point

    Part 1: Hellman, now professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Stanford University, explains why phishing is one of the biggest threats we face, why strong authentication is needed at every access point and why security add-ons won't do much to ease the threats of cyberspace.
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    2005-03-29:

    RMS in the News
    Patricia Seybold Group Identifies Liquid Machines as Leader in the Enterprise Rights Management Market

    "Liquid Machines' Solutions for Managing Digital Rights on Electronic Desktops: Tracking How Customers and Business Partners are Distributing Content across the Web" (Patricia Seybold Group - March 2005) discusses the suitability of Liquid Machines ERM products to the growing enterprise need for a rights-management solution that can protect their sensitive and high-value documents, prevent information leakage, and eliminate potential violation of compliance regulations. The report identifies many key differentiators of Liquid Machines ERM solutions' including its Policy Droplet? control, technology superiority in the area of policy enforcement and persistence, and strategic partnership with Microsoft® to extend Windows® Rights Management Services.
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    2005-03-27:

    VS and VPC in the News
    Virtual-Server Face-Off

    The year 2004 might very well become known as the year of virtualization. Initially, IT pros recognized the value of virtualization technologies in test and demo environments. However, with the advent of ever more powerful systems coupled with continued improvements in virtual machine (VM) technologies, virtualization has since become a production-level technology that enables server consolidation.
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    IdM in the News
    Microsoft Preps Move on ID Management

    Observers say Microsoft's intent is to centralize some identity services and make it easier to deploy its identity platform by reducing the amount of integration end users must do and giving developers one point where they can tie their applications to the identity platform.
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    PKI in the News
    RSA Security Solutions Adopted for PSP (PlayStation®Portable)

    i-Newswire, 2005-03-25 - RSA Security Inc. ( Nasdaq: RSAS ) announced today that it has licensed RSA BSAFE® Secure Sockets Layer ( SSL ) and public key infrastructure ( PKI ) products to Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. ( SCEI ), to provide a secure interactive environment for software title developers and publishers creating game titles for its new PSPTM ( PlayStation®Portable ) handheld entertainment system.
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April 17, 2005

Virtual Server Deployment Manager 1.3.0 (VSDM)

Microsoft has released a new tool, the Virtual Server Deployment Manager (VSDM) that can help those of you who use Virtual Server 2005 in shared development and testing environments.
One of the really cool things about this tool is that it allows normal non-administrative users to manage their own virtual machines.
You should think of VSDM as a resource kit tool in that it is offered for use without any official support. However, I am working with the developer of the tool (install the tool and you'll see who the developer is ) and will be posting some unofficial documentation to my blog. I hope to have it all done today, however, that may not happen. At a minimum I'll be documenting the installation process today (though if the developer isn't working on a Sunday, there may well be a small gap or two).
VSDM can be downloaded by clicking here.

You can find the home page for VSDM by clicking here.

Finally, John Howard, an IT Evangelist with Microsoft UK, and Megan Davis, a technical writer on the Windows Server User Assistance team will more than likely be blogging about this tool as well. Even if they aren't their blogs are both definitely worth checking out.

Stay tuned for documentation.

Posted by Paul Adare at April 17, 2005 05:27 AM