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 ...
By Roger Halbheer, on May 14th, 2013% 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 . . . → Read More: Will the user define security policies in the future?
By Roger Halbheer, on January 18th, 2013% 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 . . . → Read More: Security in 2013 – the way forward?
By Roger Halbheer, on December 13th, 2012% In the recent months, we have seen more and more targeted attacks towards our customers. A lot of them use a technique called Pass the Hash. This made us publishing a paper, which explains Pass the Hash but much more important shows some fairly simple to implement mitigations against this type of attack. As they . . . → Read More: Mitigating Pass the Hash Attacks
By Roger Halbheer, on October 20th, 2012% Exactly the right article for a weekend: May the (En)Force(ment) Be With You – Security Lessons from Star Wars
From applying security policies to DLP and effective user authentication, there are many infosecurity lessons to be learned from the classic space opera. Terry Greer-King of Check Point shows how companies can avoid the Empire’s mistakes
. . . → Read More: Security Lessons from Star Wars
By Roger Halbheer, on September 11th, 2012% I think that this is actually a fairly good overview of the privacy settings on Facebook and how you should set them:
How to secure your Facebook account
Roger
By Roger Halbheer, on April 26th, 2012% 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 . . . → Read More: Consumerization of IT–How to address this
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 . . . → Read More: Cloud Security in Office365
By Roger Halbheer, on June 24th, 2011% I am talking a lot about Cloud Security. There are a few observations I made:
Even though a lot of people are talking about the Cloud, there is still not too much knowledge about it. What is a private Cloud versus a public Cloud? What is Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, Application . . . → Read More: Security Considerations in a Private Cloud
By Roger Halbheer, on June 16th, 2011% You might have known the 10 Immutable Laws Of Security since quite a while. It is kind of the “collected non-technical wisdom” of what we see in security respeonse being it in Microsoft Security Response Center or in our Security Product Support.
There is now a version 2, which is still as important as version . . . → Read More: Ten Immutable Laws Of Security (Version 2.0)
By Roger Halbheer, on June 15th, 2011% This is actually a great speech but very, very, very scary:
and the scariest part is that I never looked at it that way but he is right
Roger
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