Black Hat US 2006: Networking & Heap Manager Updates with the Core Windows Team

jcannon — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:38:00 GMT

At this year's Black Hat Security Conference, several engineers on the Windows Networking & Security teams will be presenting <for the first time, ever> on a number of technical topics, ranging from the new improvements made to the reliability & performance of the OS Heap Manager, to the NetIO stack—a re-architected and re-written TCP/IP stack. Our discussion on this podcast has three distinguished engineers discussing their work with Sam, including:

Noel Anderson - Group Manager on the Windows Wireless Team (IP Stack for Bluetooth & Wi-Fi)
Adrian Marinescu - former member of the Windows Kernel team, LPC, Object Manager & Heap Manager. This past year, Adrian has focused his work on Vista's Heap Manager.
Aboldate Gbadegesin - Architect on Core Networking on Windows (TCP/IP & related protocols, tools & components)

We'll cover their respective areas of work & discuss the topics being presented at Black Hat for those that cannot attend.

Related Links:
- Direct Link to MP3

Do many eyes make a bug shallow?

jcannon — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:43:00 GMT

Sam interviews Mike Howard, Senior Security PM at Microsoft around security in the operating system and how we think about & engineer security defenses into an operating system. What are the myths around security - do many eyes make a bug shallow? How do you protect and engineer against attack types that haven't been invented yet?

Video: Do many eyes make a bug shallow?

Also worth checking out: Mike just published a book - Security Development Lifecycle - that explains what the SDL looks like, how it is applied through the engineering process at Microsoft and how others can adopt & enhance their own development processes.

Related Links:
- Learn more at the upcoming Black Hat Conference on security processes - a couple folks will from MS will be presenting.
- Check our Mike's security blog.
- Check out the new Security Development Lifecycle book (Amazon)
- TechNet Security Center

Alternative Video Format:
- Download in MPEG4

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : Security, App

Black Hat US 2006: Networking & Heap Manager Updates with the Core Windows Team

Do many eyes make a bug shallow?