Going Deep: Richard Ward - Engineering security into Windows Vista

Posted By: scobleizer | Apr 14th, 2006 @ 3:07 PM

Richard is an architect on the kernel team on Windows Vista. In other words, everything in Windows builds on top of his team's work. Here Charles Torre has a 52 minute conversation with him about the kinds of things that are being done deep inside Windows from a security perspective. But you'll learn more about the innards of Windows than you might expect from this conversation.

Tags: Kernel, Security, Windows Vista

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Larsenal
ready to give an answer

Windows innards--we love to go deep. So many podcasts and videos... so little time.

mwirth

Hm hm hm very nice interview, Charles! Going deep does rock.
Now, this code annotation thing Richard mentioned.. is that something us normal users can leverage, too? I only know about c++ annotation capabilities in team systems so far.

Cheers,
martin

DigitalDud

Download link seems to point to the stream instead of WMV. :O

Charles
Welcome Change

DigitalDud wrote:

Download link seems to point to the stream instead of WMV.

Fixed, but not until the cache expires (we need to work on that...)
C

marker

Great Video - keep this kind of stuff coming.

Xaero_Vincent
Sexy me

Thanks for posting that video Scobleizer.

It seems Windows Vista has a few basic improvements in security, including the IPv6 stack but the big thing is UAC. Lets just hope that backwards compatability with administrator accessed programs work without fuss.

Once again though I'm getting that flipped green video output. It is very strange and rather annoying. Has anyone else noticed this problem with Channel 9 and .NET show videos?

Regards,
Vincent

Chadk
excuse me - do you has a flavor?

Interresting. Try and go to 22 minuts into the interview, and listen to what Charles says.

Is he really saying, that he is a hacker, or is he just using it as an example?

Fine video, but a few problems.

Richard is hard to understand, as he is speaking very low.
Theres a damn light beside his screen, that makes it hard to see his face.

yman

We now know what Charles does when he is behind closed doors Tongue Out

I would probably say he is a black hat hacker.

Jeroen Ritmeijer

When the video is playing inside the browser the volume is quite often too low, even when I crank up the volume on my laptop to the max.

A workaround for this is to either download the video or view it in 'full screen', which allows you to boost the volume for speech (adjust the frequency, push up 8Khz slider) using the Graphic Equalizer (View / Enhancements / graphic equalizer)