A good paper: NSA – Best Practices for Keeping Your Home Network Secure
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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 ... 
This is one of the rare more private posts on this blog and this time has nothing to do with security at all. Since ages one singer was always part of my wife’s and my live: Chris de Burgh. And even if it is uncool in our kid’s world, they love him and his songs . . . → Read More: Chris de Burgh: People of the World Stand Up for Freedom A few years ago, I wanted to run an exercise with our incident response team in Switzerland. A customer, the government and me came together to develop the goals and the scenario. One of the key question we tried to answer together with the university, which we wanted to use as observers was, whether we . . . → Read More: Mutual Authentication in Real Life–Launching a Nuclear Missile… Do you know the feeling? You should share a large file with somebody outside your organization. The file is too big to be sent by e-mail. What can you do? Well, you might have a service by internal IT (we have one) which is not really user-friendly, hard to use and – as you do . . . → Read More: Aligning Security with the Business The world got small, didn’t it? This afternoon I decided to leave home early and go to the mountains. However, I had some conference calls tonight, where we usually use Lync (successor of Communicator). So, as I do not have a fixed line there, I dialed in with my 3G card, which gave me . . . → Read More: The New World of Work I often hear statements that the risk of losing your identity or being a victim of fraud is much higher online than offline. From my point of view it is more about the feelings of the consumer: In the real world, we know the risks – at least we learned them over the ages from . . . → Read More: Is the online world more dangerous? Last week, when I was in South Africa, a partner of us pointed me to a very interesting paper by KPMG called Cloud computing: Australian lessons and experiences. What I like is, that a lot of the items I was recently raising, where actually reflected in quotes by customers of Cloud providers as well as by the general findings of the study. The final conclusion is to me that there are a lot of security benefits moving to the Cloud. . . . → Read More: Customer Experience: Security Can Improve in the Cloud No clue what the source is but if they are right, it is scary: DRG SSH Username and Password Authentication Tag Clouds Roger Today, I had the opportunity to talk to a group of partners on Cloud and security. The goal was to make them ready for the Cloud and make them ready to answer the customer’s questions. One block – obviously – was about security and as I look at it (and as I said), this starts . . . → Read More: Mature your IT and then move to the Cloud It is often talked about the “New World of Work” or sometimes it is about bringing virtual and physical organizations together – which is often called the Hybrid organization. The Hybrid organization has different aspects: People, Technology and Buildings. We are running different pilots in different offices like Amsterdam or Zurich to learn what we . . . → Read More: How to Align Work Live and Private Live |
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