Consumerization of IT–How to address this
Bring Your Own Device or Consumerization of IT are fairly hot themes in a lot of customer organizations. When I talk to customers, there are typically different reactions, once we bring this up. Some tell us, that it is not part of their strategy; some tell us that they plan to do it but that they have a hard time figuring out, how to secure such an environment; very, very ...
10 Years of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft
Before joining Microsoft a little bit more than 10 years ago, I ran a team at PricewarehoureCoopers on e-Business Risk Management – classical security consulting in the Internet bubble time. When I announced that I will leave PwC and join Microsoft, I got interesting reactions (and remember, this was 2001). Mainly they were along two lines: Oh, you are joining a desktop company? ...
10 Reasons to migrate off Windows XP
I would like you to sit back, close your eyes and think about the year 2001. Think about how you used technology back then, how you used the Internet. Now, let’s take it a little bit further back in history and think of the year 2000. Just after we realized that the Year-2000-Problem was handled very well by the industry. How you used technology, how you used the Internet, the ...
Office 365 Becomes First and Only Major Cloud Productivity Service to Comply With Leading EU and U.S. Standards for Data Protection and Security
A long title but this was the title of the official press statement yesterday. Compliance is always a key question in the public cloud space. Therefore it is very important for us that we now achieved three things: Office 365 is compliant with EU Model Clauses, Data Processing Agreements and ISO 27001 among other standards. Office 365 is the first and only major ...
By Roger Halbheer, on September 16th, 2009% This morning I stumbled across a guide by the US Health & Human Services with regards to H1N1. Even though it did not catch much news lately I am not sure whether it is really over. Staying prepared it definitely not a bad thing. Even though it is US-centric, you should probably look into it: . . . → Read More: H1N1 (Swine) Flu Preparedness – Guide for Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources
By Roger Halbheer, on September 9th, 2009% I am using a Latin keyboard and my Arabic is kind of “rusty” but I guess that this could be of real help if you write Arabic:
Microsoft Maren
There is a good video on that page.
Roger
By Roger Halbheer, on September 9th, 2009% I recently blogged on how I monitor my environment: Monitoring – a Key Activity to a Trustworthy Infrastructure? In the meantime, I am doing more. I was just recently looking into System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).
So, I installed it on my monitoring server and started to manage my virtual hosts centrally. Basically VMM . . . → Read More: Monitoring the Virtual Environment
By Roger Halbheer, on September 4th, 2009% Well, it was one of these days. In order to make photos available to our family we used SharePoint since quite a while. It did a fairly decent job but I wanted more fancy stuff. So I started to look for something in Silverlight as Silverlight is our web platform. I really found something on . . . → Read More: PHP on Windows Server 2008 – My New Photo Gallery
By Roger Halbheer, on September 3rd, 2009% Our EMEA Security Program Manager, Henk van Roest, started this series internally and with his consent I am publishing it here in my blog as I think it contains a lot of great information for you to use.
The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) provides an in-depth perspective on the changing threat landscape including software . . . → Read More: Why it pays to be secure – Chapter 2 – Vulnerabilities
By Roger Halbheer, on September 1st, 2009% When I talk about the big trends, one of them is about the call of the younger generation for more flexibility. Flexibility in this context is about where you work, when you work and how you organize yourself. If you take this as a given, you have to wonder whether today’s IT is able to . . . → Read More: Is the "Managed Desktop" the ultimate solution?
By Roger Halbheer, on September 1st, 2009% Hmm, think about it, when you write the next version of your policy:
Roger
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