I arrived in Boston last night and settled in my room. Great View! I am attending the IDG organized Security Standards Meetings at the Haynes Convention Center, Boston.
Apart from the (ISC)2 CPEs, these rounds of meetings is touted as an opportunty for leading Security Decision Makers (that me :)) to interact with the leading Industry Vendors (that will be Microsoft and Cisco?).
Well, a few weeks leading to this, I recieved a mail requesting that attendees write out questions they'll like the buffs from Microsoft (who will hold a special session today) to answer. So I quickly whipped up my pen (no fingers) and typed away some 'complex' questions for the Microsoft Quartet.
Here are the questions :
1. Enterprise Security Best Practices
What does Microsoft See as the greatest Challenge facing Enterprises as efforts in Enterprise Security continue?
- Development of Platforms that drive architectural ideas? Or
- Development of Architectures that drive platform/solution ideas?
And what does Microsoft see as its role in this future?
2. Integration
With is Microsoft’s vision for integrated identity infrastructure , ala single-sign-on, federation, generic-entity-identification and tracking as well as privacy preservation in a compliant enterprise. Will Microsoft transition to a fully standardized identity database structure or retain the Jet Engine based AD database structure?
3. What lessons has Microsoft learnt in the last two years, as it races to meet release deadlines while grappling with its vision of a minimal bug next-generation platform (Vista and Longhorn), all in a business environment that seems more ready to embrace the alternatives and lay much of the blame for widespread security incidences on Microsoft in some way or the other?
Now, you'll wonder why I didn't ask all the other burning questions. Well, we were restricted to 3 questions for starters, and I prefer the big-picture questions...
Ok. I'll continue this later (yeah, I know. I say that alot, don't I).
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