The primary objective of the BlueHat Conference Series is to build bridges between Microsoft developers and executives, key security program partners, and members of the security research community while educating the greater Microsoft population on security threats and mitigations.
BlueHat v11 again brought leading external security researchers to campus to present timely and lively presentations that showcased ongoing research, state-of-the-art security tools/techniques, and emerging security threats. Our main themes for BlueHat v11 focused on threat landscape, web application security, cloud security, and the security ecosystem.
News from BlueHat 2011
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BlueHat Kickoff!
When the idea of the first BlueHat was conceived, a mad brainchild of an idea to invite hackers behind the walls and bring their experience, expertise, and participate in the security entity that is Microsoft, no one thought past the "let's make sure we pull this off successfully". We had no...
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You Spent All That Money and You Still Got Owned????
This talk will focus on practical methods of identifying and bypassing modern enterprise class security solutions such as Load Balancers, both Network and Host-based Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPSs), Web Application Firewalls (WAFs), and Network Access Control Solutions (NAC). The goal of this talk...
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How To: Determine The Value Of Security
Jared Pfost, a former Blue Badge, shares techniques how to determine the right amount of security investment for IT, cloud services, or even the SDL. Jared challenges you to define what success really looks like for security and decide if you really want it. Jared breaks down security investment by being...
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The Security Trifecta – The Platforms, the Apps and the Stores
Given that application delivery is shifting rapidly toward a distributed model, particularly with regard to online/mobile app stores, the complexity of the application security landscape, including the platforms on which they live and the stores themselves, is increasing. While this model is currently...