The Hogg Blog
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SecPAL v1.1 Now Available
Just a quick note to let everyone know that we have just released a minor update to our SecPAL...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 06/13/2007
Extending Visual Studio - Made Easy
One thing that always amazes me as I talk to scientists and researchers at shows like the recent...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 05/29/2007
SaaS Architect Forum - "A security policy language to support grid on demand"
I was asked to present an overview of SecPAL at an Architect Forum focusing on Software + Service in...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 05/15/2007
SecPAL In The News
In my last post I promised to walk through a demonstration of SecPAL using a scenario that is...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 05/07/2007
SecPAL - Access Control for Grid Computing Environments
It has probably been around 9 months since my last blog release where I described the release of our...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 04/20/2007
Service Factory Hands on Labs are now available
I just walked past Don's office and noticed him laughing hysterically at the "cubicle song" on...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 08/09/2006
Do Agile conferences have schedules?
Most of our development team was out at Agile 2006 last week - with the exception of Chris Tavares...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 08/03/2006
ASMX Web Service Software Factory - Now Available!
As you may already know we have spent the last couple of weeks (or was it months?) with our heads...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 08/01/2006
Web Service Security Patterns book now available on Amazon
I noticed that Amazon finally has stock of our Web Service Security Patterns book for anyone who...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 07/26/2006
Architecture and Design Guidelines for Business Intelligence Applications
For anyone that has ever designed and implemented a data warehouse on SQL Server you will know there...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 07/06/2006
ASMX Web Service Software Factory CTP Available
Over the last couple of months you have seen us talking about the work we are doing for the Service...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 06/19/2006
Service Factory: Helping you design Secure Web Services using WCF
Our May community release of the Web Service Software Factory includes some of our coolest work so...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 05/26/2006
Service Factory: Helping you design interoperable web services
I am not sure how many people have had a chance to download our May CTP of the Web Service Software...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 05/21/2006
May Community Release of The Service Factory Now Available
One of our GAT guru's and developers has a summary of the new features here. The biggest ticket at...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 05/11/2006
WS-I Basic Security Profile Reference Implementation Design Document
I just noticed that the WS-I SAWG (Sample Applications Working Group) has finally released a Working...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 05/04/2006
Distributed Computing Economics
With all this talk about Web services, Grid computing and Software as a Service I thought you might...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 04/24/2006
Short videos for getting started with the Service Factory
Don has created some video blogs to help you get started with WCF and the Service Factory. They are...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 04/20/2006
Introduction to the Web Service Software Factory
As you hopefully know by now, the first community release of our Web Service Software Factory is now...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 04/14/2006
Just Announced - Service Baseline Architecture Toolkit
At this mornings keynote for the Microsoft Canadian Architecture Forum Don Smith made our first...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 04/06/2006
2 days to go...
The Canadian Architecture Forum started today in Redmond. Tomorrow myself and Don Smith are...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 04/04/2006
3 days to go...
3 days from now attendees at the upcoming Canadian Architecture Forum hear the first public...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 04/03/2006
RSA Conference 2006 Notes...
I have put some notes together from the sessions that I went to at RSA. Feel free to take a look /...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 03/06/2006
Black Knights vs White Knights: Bringing down the house...
Must see TV for anyone whose manager gives you a hard time when you mention spending time working on...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 03/01/2006
Security vs Usability - Wireless Access at RSA 2006: An Anti-Pattern
How many times have you had a security solution / process forced upon you that for whatever reason...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 02/15/2006
Microsoft Research Security Policy Analyser - Now integrated into VS2005
If you haven't already played with the Security Policy Analyser that shipped with WSE 3.0 - take a...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 02/14/2006
Web service security interop guidance
I have had a couple of questions lately regarding web service security and interoperability. In...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 02/03/2006
RSA Security Conference 2006
I attended the RSA Security Conference last year and was surprised not to see better guidance on...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 01/28/2006
Web service security - Threats and Countermeasures - Part 4 : Message Protection – Sign and Encrypt and Encrypt Signature!
Threats Network eavesdropping leads to disclosure of confidential information even though the SOAP...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 01/27/2006
Web service security - Threats and Countermeasures - Part 4 : Message Protection – Sign and Encrypt and Encrypt Signature!
Network eavesdropping may lead to disclosure of confidential information even though the SOAP...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 01/27/2006
Web service security webcasts
In case anyone missed the recent web casts on Web service security that Don Smith, Ron Jacobs,...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 01/27/2006
SAML Security Token Service for WSE 3.0 just released...
We have just released our Security token service for WSE 3.0. So if you are interested in Web...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 01/19/2006
Web service security - Threats and Countermeasures - Part 3 : Message Validation
Threats Message data may be malformed for malicious intentions such as injection attacks...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 01/04/2006
Scott Densmore leaves patterns & practices
I just noticed that Scott has posted his obituary on his blog. He leaves PAG and joins another team...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 12/28/2005
Web service security - Threats and Countermeasures - Part 2 : Message Replay Protection
Threats Messages may traverse untrusted intermediaries on an insecure network – any of whom could...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 12/28/2005
Web service security - Threats and Countermeasures - Introduction
I am starting a series of entries that aim to provide an overview to major threats related to web...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 12/18/2005
Web service security - Threats and Countermeasures - Part 1 : Message Protection – Integrity and Confidentiality
Threats Network eavesdropping leads to disclosure of confidential information An attacker...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 12/18/2005
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Web service security UsernameToken
I am still getting used to the blogging tool - so figured I would try out creating an article....
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 12/15/2005
Web Service Security UsernameToken Primer
Challenge A subject that I still see a lot of misunderstanding around is how best to use the...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 12/15/2005
Web service security: Scenarios, Patterns and Implementations is live
The timing couldn't have worked out any better if we had of tried. We presented our Web Service...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 12/13/2005
Introduction, Integration and Securing Web Services Part 3
Alright, as I promised this is the third part of the summary describing what we are currently...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 11/30/2005
Help us to help you build mission-critical connected systems
Not sure if you have read Don's blog yet...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 11/28/2005
Introduction, Integration and Securing Web Services Part 2
It is Tuesday morning just one day before Thanksgiving. Leant my friend my car as his was in an...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 11/22/2005
Introduction, Integration and Securing Web Services
I'm Jason Hogg, a Program Manager on the Microsoft patterns & practices team. Myself and a cast...
Author: Jason Hogg Date: 11/19/2005