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Monthly Archives: June 2012
TechEd 2012 Wrapup
Well, the conference is hitting a close at this point, so I thought I would highlight the major takeaways that I got from attending this year: Looks like the Azure solution has matured considerably since I first took a look … Continue reading
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Cyber Security Defenses – what works today
Attending this session just for Salvador Ortega, though I know that Sal will never read this blog post, even after I told him about it last week, sent him a link, and will tell him about it next Monday when … Continue reading
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Where are we at Vandy – Identity Matrix
Took a stab at defining where I think we are at Vanderbilt as far as the Identity Matrix from the last session. I think we are overall in fairly good shape. But there is room for improvement.
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The Four Pillars of Identity: A solution for online success
Trends and Challenges: explosive data growth – Massive amounts of data that is being collected. Need to secure access to this data proliferation of devices – mulitple devices per user. don’t always have management policies for those devices. personal devices. … Continue reading
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Hands On Labs – Virtual Machines
Took some time this afternoon to hit the hands on lab and play with Azure. its pretty cool. Went through and quickly provisioned both a linux VM and a windows server 2008 r2 VM. Pretty slick. The provisioning process was … Continue reading
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Managing and Extending ADFS
Improvements and Enhancements in ADFS [ Interesting session. Very technical. The presenter went into details of how to configure and customize the ADFS experience. He showed how to setup config files and tricks and "hacks" to customize the user experience. … Continue reading
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Defense Against the Dark Ages: Your Old web apps are trying to kill you
Windows IE Upgrades or Security Reviews identify various different security issues and challenges. High Risk: Insisting on keeping old versions of Java around., Carrying old IE setting forward and finally, Relying on ActiveX not intended for web applications Java – … Continue reading
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Overview of Managing Apps, Services & VM in Windows Azure
New announcements for Azure: VMs – hosted servers in windows and linux. flexible workload support, and support for virtual private networks Cloud servies: Build infintely scalable apps, rich multi-tier architectures and automated app management. websites where you don’t worry about … Continue reading
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MS Office 365 for Education
Agenda: what it means to have Office 365 for education and what is the upgrade/migration plan for live@edu? Office 365 core: Office, Lync, Sharepoint, Exchange Everyone upgraded from live@edu moves into an Exchange plan 1 by default. other options cost. … Continue reading
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Cloudy Weather – How secure is the cloud?
Things to consider about cloud security: Confidentiality – is the data safe in the cloud? Can MS access it? Can your competitors access your data? Can the FBI see it? Integrity – can you verify that the data hasn’t changed? … Continue reading
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Dan at a Conference 