security|Jun 23, 2005

Congress to Up the Ante on Network Security

For more than a year now, I’ve been telling audiences to expect laws to be passed requiring companies to divulge breaches of network security. California already has such a law. Now Congress is debating a similar federal law that requires companies to let consumers know when personal data that could be used in identity theft is compromised…
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Blogs|Nov 13, 2004

Field access versus local variable access performance

Recently, I was at a customer site and they were comparing the performance of a function that was written in unmanaged C with its C# equivalent. As they expected, the C code was performing much faster than the C# code. However, I didn’t expect this. Once managed code is JIT compiled, the code is very…
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Blogs|Jul 17, 2004

Security Trimming and Health Monitoring, Oh My!

I wasn’t that excited about ASP.NET 2.0’s new site navigation infrastructure until I discovered security trimming. Security trimming enables site maps nodes to be selectively shown and hidden based on the role or roles that the requestor belongs to. For example, if you have an Admin link in your site’s navigation bar, you can tell…
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