During Microsoft Techdays in Västerås Joachim and me did a presentation on Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) which went quite well. All our demos worked and I think we did a good job of explaining the concept of federations to the people in the room. In retrospect it’s easy to identify certain areas where we could have explained things in further detail but I guess that will always be the case regardless of the subject matter.

The event in itself was very well organized, there were plenty of interesting sessions to listen to and the keynote speach by Troed Troedsen was pure brilliance. My personal favorite among the sessions was a presentation on Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) by Johan Lindfors and Sergio Molero. If one were to boil down their presentation to one sentence it would be: Don’t treat security in your application as a last minute addition.

www.microsoft.com/sdl

SDL Threat Modeling Tool

 

edit: fixed some funny typos :)