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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 ... 
We could even talk about two-factor authentication in my opinion. The idea is, that whenever you logon from an untrusted PC, you will be asked to use a second factor (or step). In my case, which I show below, I use the Authenticator app on my phone, which is similar to an RSA SecureID. How . . . → Read More: Microsoft Account: Enable Two-Step Verification Over the course of the next 12 months, you will definitely hear us turning up the volume on Windows XP end of life. However, I really hope that you started your migration – if you have not already migration until today. Trustworthy Computing just looked at the end of support through the lens of the . . . → Read More: The Countdown Begins: Support for Windows XP Ends on April 8, 2014 In one of my latest blogs Security in 2013 – the way forward? I mentioned that I have two slides showing the evolution of Windows in the light of the evolving threat landscape and the evolution of the Internet. I got some requests for this deck. Therefore I posted it on my Downloads page. You . . . → Read More: Windows Security Evolution I just needed to post this: There is a new blog on our Surface: http://blog.surface.com/b/surface/archive/2013/02/07/welcome-to-the-surface-blog.aspx I am really, really, really looking forward to getting the Surface Pro here in Switzerland J Related articles Surface Windows 8 Pro arrives 9 February Microsoft finally launches official Surface blog Embargoes lifted, reviews of the Surface Pro are in . . . → Read More: The New Surface Blog Today is the day we launched Office 365 officially to the broad market. This is a real cool step forward you should look at: Go to http://office.microsoft.com and give it a try. For only $8/year you get the ability to have it on up to 5 PCs or Macs (well, I guess you choose . . . → Read More: Try Office 365 Home Premium A lot of customers are asking us about Direct Access and how you can implement it. Erez Ben Ari (a Senior Support Escalation Engineer at Microsoft) and Bala Natarajan (a Program Manager in our Windows division) wrote a book on that called Windows Server 2012 Unified Remote Access Planning and Deployment. This is the abstract: . . . → Read More: New book on Direct Access What a statement! The last time I was on a panel with Eugene Kaspersky, he told us that the world will end and the only way to prevent this from happening is a new really secure OS (and they have one…). And now, I read such statement: Microsoft products no longer feature among the Top . . . → Read More: Kaspersky Lab: Microsoft software products pretty darn secure Our friends in France are currently working intensively on Test Lab Guides for Consumerization of IT. The next one was just released: New Consumerization of IT Test Lab Guide: Hyper-V Windows 8 corporate virtual machine on personal computer” This is the overview: Thinking about Consumerization of IT (CoIT) necessarily leads to some security and management . . . → Read More: New Consumerization of IT Test Lab Guide: Hyper-V Windows 8 corporate virtual machine on personal computer” As you know, protecting your information in the cloud is key. We just published a paper called Information Protection and Control (IPC) in Office 365 Preview with Windows Azure AD Rights Management. Here is the summary: Due to increased regulation, the Consumerization of IT (CoIT) and the “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD), the explosion of . . . → Read More: Paper: Information Protection and Control (IPC) in Office 365 Preview with Windows Azure AD Rights Management I am a huge fan of DirectAccess – especially as a user. This means mainly, that I love it as a user as I do not have to care anymore about where I am connected – my notebook immediately connects to our Microsoft Corporation’s network. Ages ago, when we ran the pilot I was already . . . → Read More: Direct Access and Virtual Smartcard |
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