In Part III of the Cnet security series, we check in with the folks at Redmond. At Microsoft, the goal of their security detail is to think like a criminal.
Although it has become a popular biannual event, Blue Hat can still be an unnerving experience at times as guest hackers occasionally break Microsoft products in front of the people who built them. But studying such simulated attacks--a process known as "threat modeling"--provides invaluable lessons in teaching developers how an application can be attacked and what the security controls should be.
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