Learning to Fly - Mika's Blog

I've been extremely busy with courses & seminars over the last few weeks - dare I say it's been one of the busiest January that I can recall. However, in between I've come across some great security related info:

• The "RunAs Guru", Aaron Margosis, posted that the LUA White Paper has been released. It's available on http://go.microsoft.com/?LinkId=58445.
• Ian Hameroff has written a great summary on IPSec and its evolving role in securing corporate LANs.
• WSSRA Virtual Environments for Development and Test was released few weeks go. I wish I had time to set up some of those scenarios...
• Jason Fossen has posted a great set of scripts and other info on ISAscripts.org as a downloadable zip file.
• Last but not least, Technet Virtual Labs have nice testbeds for you try out the most common scenarios for a number of Microsoft products without need to set up your own lab.

My employer (and the company that I was a senior partner and shareholder of), Sovelto Oy, merged with another ICT training and consulting company, FCS Partners Oyj, as of today. We are really excited about the merger and are really looking forward to an exciting future. Together we form the largest ICT training company in Finland. FCS Partners and Sovelto are the two rising stars in the market. Both companies have grown and developed under the hard circumstances after the rapid growth in the IT market. The organization of the merged company will be based on experts and partners with high value on expertise and professional training. In the flat hierarchy organization all personnel will be directly interfacing the customers.

Over the last weekend we've started to integrate our IT systems. So far, so good :) Of course, there have been minor hickups but nothing major so far. What makes it so interesting is that both companies are using the latest versions of most Microsoft server applications and operating systems.

BTW, the name of the new company is FCS Sovelto Oyj.