As David Gristwood and Mike Shaw note, on October 4 in London there’s a free Microsoft Technical Briefing Day with sessions on IT security with Steve Ballmer presenting a keynote at the end of the day.  Rafal Lukawiecki, a security guru and one of the top-rated speakers from TechEd Amsterdam, will be presenting on Threat Modelling as well as XP SP 2.  There’s also a session that I’m particularly interested in on practical lessons learnt with WSE 2.0 on the UK Government Gateway project:

In February this year, a new release of the Government Gateway went live using WSE2.0 to deliver WS-Security, WS-Trust and WS-Policy for UK cross-government authentication and authorisation. With over 4 million users, the Gateway's authentication and messaging facilities provide the backbone of the e-government agenda - and also one of the biggest WS-* implementations to date, coded in just 8 weeks. Find out the good, bad (and ugly) of using WS-Security - hot tips on what makes for good design, and what pitfalls to avoid.

You can register for the event here.