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 February 18th, 2010% As you all know, I have two main pet themes: Risk Management and Compliance Management as I see very often that there is room for improvement when it comes to such processes within our customers. Internally, we often think about how we can make it easier for our customers to manage compliance in their networks.
. . . → Read More: Making the Management of Security Compliance Easier!
By Roger Halbheer, on November 13th, 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.
Use these Learning Paths to find a range of Microsoft training references and resources on security threats . . . → Read More: Why it pays to be secure – Chapter 4 – I want to learn!
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 October 16th, 2009% COFEE is a tool available to Law Enforcement only to capture online evidence with a little training as possible. The idea behind the tool is, that there is little need for high-trained staff to be available during e.g. house searches and that a normal, much less trained officer can capture all the data. Until today, . . . → Read More: COFEE now distributed via a NW3C as well
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 27th, 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.
Returning to the theme of deploying security updates once more, we need to look at the potential . . . → Read More: Why it pays to be secure – Chapter 1 – Data Breaches
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
By Roger Halbheer, on August 13th, 2009% I know that these news are not new but I was away when we announced it and to me it is important enough to take it up afterwards.
Over the last few months we worked on a document explaining everything which is going on around an Update Tuesday. So, what is an Advanced Notification, what . . . → Read More: The Microsoft Security Update Guide
By Roger Halbheer, on July 14th, 2009% The day before yesterday we opened the Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 Security Baselines Beta and would look forward to getting your feedback and comment. So, sign up for it if you are interested: Sign-Up Now for the New Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 Security Baselines Beta Opening July 13th!
Roger
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