Microsoft Security Webcast Week

In the first week fo December, Microsoft will be hosting 1 week chalked full of webcasts relating to security. They have a goal of training 500,000 in the coming year about security. The TechNet Security Webcast Week spotlights TechNet’s continuing webcast coverage of one of the hottest topics for IT professionals today.

You should check out some of the topics on the agenda:

• ShopTalk: IT Security Webcast
  
• Using Portable Handheld Devices in a Secure Manner
  
• Secure Network Access
  
• Designing a Secure - Reliable - and Usable Patch Management Infrastructure
  
• Securing Your Exchange 2003 Environment
  
• Effectively Using IIS Security
  
• Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Scanning, and Security Auditing
  
• Using the Microsoft Security Tools
  
• Safeguarding Information with Windows Rights Management Services
  
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Security Enhancements
  
• Software and Patch Management with Software Update Service, Windows Update and SMS
  
• Demystifying IPsec
  
• 10 Things Hackers Don’t Want You To Know
  

Education is a significant role of the security management life cycle, and its good to see Microsoft step up here. Since most news coverage is void of things Microsoft is doing right, I will applaud and say "it's about time".

If you have the time, check out some of the sessions.