Just wanted to tell those of you that might be interested in security (mainly writing secure code, but I believe it will branch into more broad subjects too), you might want to check out Joe Stagner’s Digital Black Belt WebCast series (it’s through MSDN WebCasts). The official series site is here:
http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/series/digitalblackbelt.mspx
If you are one of the first 300 to attend six of these webcasts, MS is giving away free Black Belts (like a real black belt type thing…think Karate but minus the sparring :))
I met Joe at an MSDN Event a while back and he’s a really nice guy and he’s reallllllly into security (and he is actually quite familiar with non-MS products…aka Linux….and other interesting things…so he really has a broad knowledge base to use in his talks if the people want to go that way). ANyway, there’s a webcast TODAY (Feb 4, 2005) that’s to kick things off and I’m going to try attending. Here’s the link to it if you’re interested:
MSDN Webcast: Digital Blackbelt Series: The Software Security Crisis: Selling Management on the Need to Invest in Secure Software Development (Level 100)
MSDN Webcast: Digital Blackbelt Series: The Software Security Crisis: Selling Management on the Need to Invest in Secure Software Development (Level 100)
Friday, February 4, 2005
11:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M. Pacific Time, United States and Canada (UTC-8)
Tune in for an introduction to the Digital Blackbelt Series. Learn about the evolving “Secure Culture” at Microsoft Corporation and how your company can save money by spending defensively.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032267274&Culture=en-US
BTW, there is also a webcast today that Bill Gates is supposed to be at talking about the Office system and how developers can be building on that…here’s the link:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032268546&Culture=en-US