What is EMET and why should I care?

If you are a professional developer, software security and vulnerability avoidance should be second nature to you. Even so, security issues can sometimes creep into software, and the more publicity your application gathers, the more disastrous the results can be, should a programming error show up.

The help you find (certain kinds) of security issues, Microsoft has just few days ago announced s new version of its EMET tool. EMET stands for "Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit", and now a new version 2.0 is available. The tool "...provides users with the ability to deploy security mitigation technologies to arbitrary applications. This helps prevent vulnerabilities in those applications (especially line of business and 3rd party apps) from successfully being exploited."

That said, especially if you are developing native code applications, be sure to give EMET 2.0 a spin. You never know what it might find.