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 ...
Cybersecurity–More than a good headline
A lot of governments all across the globe are working on starting, restarting or pushing their Cybersecurity initiative. What often concerns me is, that the last real headline has more impact on the strategy and the themes to be addressed than a structure or a plan or a strategy.
This made us thinking about what is needed to run a successful Cybersecurity Agenda within a country? What themes ought to be ...
By Roger Halbheer, on May 20th, 2011% This is actually a great development to fight Child Porn:
Facebook adopts PhotoDNA and joins Microsoft and The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to disrupt the proliferation of online child exploitation.
You find the information here.
Roger
By Roger Halbheer, on September 14th, 2010% To prevent non-government organizations from falling victim to nefarious actions taken in the guise of anti-piracy enforcement, Microsoft will create a new unilateral software license for NGOs that will ensure they have free, legal copies of our products. . . . → Read More: Free Software for NGOs
By Roger Halbheer, on June 12th, 2010% I actually wanted to show nPad to you as I loved it – it is a new hardware factor to what we did since years on the tablet. I like this new hardware (see below) and then read this article, showing that Apple got hit fairly hard this week by a vulnerability in iPad: Apple’s . . . → Read More: Who needs a (vulnerable) iPad if you can get an nPad?
By Roger Halbheer, on March 20th, 2010% On February 24th we announced the work we did on taking down Waledac – read Tim Cranton’s blog post called Cracking Down on Botnets.
Now it is time to look back and try to understand what we learned so far. sudosecure traces the Waledac infections and give a good view of new infections by the . . . → Read More: Results of Operation b49 (Botnet Takedown)
By Roger Halbheer, on January 14th, 2010% Often when I talk to our customers and they ask me about the cloud, a lot of questions come up. Most of them are security related (obviously) but some of them are more management focused. For example the question about how to manage a hybrid environment, where part of your business is run on premise, . . . → Read More: HP and Microsoft Partnership: That's What You Need in the Cloud
By Roger Halbheer, on November 2nd, 2009% It is a good tradition since quite a while that we make the intelligence we have available accessible to the broad public. This will help out customers to protect themselves much better. The Security Intelligence Report (SIR) is built on a unparalleled set of sensors out there in the Internet:
Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT): . . . → Read More: Power of Knowledge: Security Intelligence Report v7
By Roger Halbheer, on October 18th, 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.
Security — you hear about it every day. Being responsible for information security can be a daunting . . . → Read More: Why it pays to be secure – Chapter 3 – But how do I?
By Roger Halbheer, on September 16th, 2009% I often mention that we try to give you all the tools we have as long as it makes sense form a risk perspective. The risk perspective is a simple one: If we give it to you as our customer, we give it as well to the criminals.
There are two new tools which . . . → Read More: Microsoft SDL Team Releases New Security Testing Tools
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 August 22nd, 2009% Henk van Roest, our EMEA Security Program Manager is running a pretty successful internal blog. Before summer vacation he started a series called “Why it pays to be secure” which I think has some great information in it. I asked him then to go public with it but he told me that he is not . . . → Read More: Why it pays to be secure – Introduction
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