Will the user define security policies in the future?
I think, I blogged about this event already earlier: Years ago I was meeting a customer and was talking about the future of IT. I was telling the audience (about 10 people including the Security Officer) that there is a good chance that IT will not define a set of hardware anymore but that the user will buy their own and use it for business. Additionally, different people have different ...
Get off XP or Risk your Business?
One of the highest hit rates I ever had on my blog was one I wrote right before Conficker broke out. I called it Playing Russian Roulette with your Network. The background was, that we released an out of band security update and our customers came back and asked us, whether they really shall deploy it – this situation then led to Conficker.
About 12 months from today, Windows XP will ...
Security in 2013 – the way forward?
Typically January is the month where we are asked to make predictions on the trends for the New Year. I do not like this as I am an engineer and not a fortune tellerJ. But there are things we know and things we definitely need to drive this year. I would actually put it into the context of typical hygiene of any IT environment.
Let's try to understand, where we stand ...
The Directory in the Cloud?
It seems that it is an eternity ago – and it is. Pretty much three years ago, Doug Cavit and me published a paper called the Cloud Computing Security Considerations. Even though it is three years, the paper is still worth reading as the content still applies. What we basically said was, that if you look at the Cloud, there are five areas of Considerations:
Compliance and Risk Management: Organizations shifting ...
Cloud Security in Office365 By Roger Halbheer, on July 15th, 2011 You heard about the launch of Office365 recently and I hope you read the blog post on the application of the Cloud Computing Security Considerations to the private. cloud. If not, here it is: Security Considerations in a Private Cloud
To complete the series now, we released an additional paper on how these considerations can be applied to Office 365. It is not about the security features of Office 365. It is about how a the responsibilities between the customer and us can and shall be split. This is a really interesting paper in my opinion: Addressing Cloud Computing Security Considerations with Microsoft Office 365.
Additionally, we took a deeper look at the Cloud Security Alliance’ Cloud Control Matrix (CCM) at provided an answer for each question/control raised in this document: Standard Response to Request for Information – Security and Privacy.
These are all steps to provide you with the necessary transparency to get into the public cloud and on Office 365!
Roger
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