Microsoft's Blue Hat Conference

SecureThroughObscure writes "ZDNet Zero-Day security blogger Nate McFeters got an exclusive look at the Microsoft Blue Hat conference. This is an invite-only conference that few media get to attend, but apparently McFeters was brought in with co-worker Rob Carter to talk about some vulnerabilities they had discovered with a few product security teams in attendence, and was also asked to do a guest blog posting about the conference at the Microsoft Blue Hat blog. McFeters also included several pictures of the conference and after conference events."

Re:But...

[Alex Belits]

No, this is purely to create confusion. They always mess with unrelated terms to gain perception of familiarity in users -- meaningless slogan "Digital Nervous System" mimicked DNS acronym, ".NET" imitates a top-level domain, etc.

Re:WTH

[dhavleak]

An invite-only confrence where they test how well their product does?

No testing happens at Blue Hat. The idea is from MS to have the best from Black Hat speak to it's own people - an idea interchange. It's MS-internal because MS wants its employees to get exposure to this information, and so that MS employees can discuss specifics (with the invitees) that are relevant to them.

You'll get skewered data that we all know their going to use to bash Linux and support Windows

This site does not rely on data (skewed or otherwise) to put MS on the proverbial skewer. For an very recent example, look at the thread earlier today [slashdot.org] (where one journalist theorizes that MS may at some future date put some 'copyright cop' on Zunes, and /.ers were out in the numbers to condemn the evil empire without once stopping to notice that this simply wasn't true! [news.com])

Re:But...

[CurlyG]

Wouldn't that be the "Blue Badges" conference ? No? Well where did they get the "Blue Hat" from then?