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 August 17th, 2010% It is an interesting and difficult question. What can we do to really be able to stay on top? Or shall we give up? Well, clearly, I do not think so.
I read this article today, which really made me think: Black Hats are Winning, Symantec Says – wow! A fairly clear statement. We lost . . . → Read More: Are We Losing the Fight Against Cybercrime?
By Roger Halbheer, on April 21st, 2010% I recently came across a paper called Shadows in the Cloud, which is actually a follow-up report of Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network, an investigation of the attacks on the office of the Dalai Lama and some governmental bodies. The report is written by two bodies who had the privilege to investigate those . . . → Read More: A Detailed Analysis of an Attack – Do We Need an International Incident Sharing Database?
By Roger Halbheer, on March 19th, 2010% Well, you know, fairly often when I look at showcases I am a little bit disappointed I have to admit. Mainly because the technology which is shown is really cool and I would love to leverage it – just it works in the US only. Or better, it works across the globe but the data . . . → Read More: Azure Showcase: The Eye on Earth
By Roger Halbheer, on March 15th, 2010% If you are running a blog, you might most probably use one of the websites which show where your user come from – no? Like Clustrmaps, which I used for a few years. Then I found a new one, which I like much more as it gives me more information. If is called WorldMaps and . . . → Read More: Monitoring the Blog Hits – Live in Silverlight!
By Roger Halbheer, on November 19th, 2009% To be clear upfront: This is not a “Microsoft versus Google” post. I cannot even judge how far Google pushed security with the Chrome OS. But the following article raised quite some questions how we look at security: Inside the Google Chrome OS security model. This article, like so many when security of an Operating . . . → Read More: Security – A Feature Discussion? Some Thoughts on Google's Chrome OS
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 August 11th, 2009% As you might have read, I recently blogged about my infrastructure and the future of a platform towards a better management of compliance. I wrote about
Deploying PKI Time Sync on Virtual DCs Patch Management, a key step towards compliance!
Especially the Time Sync post was more about a technical challenge rather than a high-level . . . → Read More: Monitoring – a Key Activity to a Trustworthy Infrastructure?
By Roger Halbheer, on July 8th, 2009% I often get asked about Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, how it works and what role we can play to prevent them.
So, let me start with the first part of it: Our Security Intelligence Report version 5 talked about the underground economy and actually explained what is happening before a DDoS takes place. . . . → Read More: Distributed Denial of Service – and how it works
By Roger Halbheer, on June 11th, 2009% A few years ago, we ran a huge event in Switzerland: We offered people in Switzerland to come to us (we were for a whole week at the airport in Zurich) with their PC and we check it for malware, patch it etc. We did this with a lot of partners and had live TV . . . → Read More: Welcome to reality: Apple Acknowledges OS X Malware
By Roger Halbheer, on May 11th, 2009% This morning I opened one of the Swiss Sunday newspapers and Google Chrome made it to the front-page with a “best practice approach” for deploying security updates. In the article itself it was claimed that Chrome is one of the best browsers with regards to security as the deploy patches silently, without letting the user . . . → Read More: Google Chrome and Silent Patching
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