Recently I was working on a SharePoint project for a client with offices throughout the globe, with key offices in UK, North America and Australia.

They had one SharePoint environment in each region.

For the Australian SharePoint farm we wanted to start authenticating users via ADFS.

Our client’s only ADFS environment was in the UK though and one of the key concerns I had was how long it would take to authenticate users to the UK given the high network latency, and the fact that there is pretty much nothing that can be done about the latency.

When is the best time to catch security issues with your application? Before you’ve built it of course!

If you’re responsible for an application from a technical design perspective, the last thing you want to have happen is get all the way into the security testing process and find out that there is a major issue with your application and now the whole thing has to be redesigned!

Well, now your job is even easier, thanks to the Microsoft Threat Modeling tool, and the new 2014 version that has just been released recently.

What do the following movies have in common?

• Speed
• Entrapment
• Ocean’s 11

Well I think they were pretty enjoyable movies, and classic 90’s Sandra Bullock and Catherine Zeta Jones were certainly easy on the eye. The key scene in common that I had in mind though is this: Security camera’s being compromised - e.g. the ‘bad guys’ breaking into a camera and then having footage play on a “loop” so that they have their way.