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 February 4th, 2013% Most companies have a lot of security policies to protect their assets and then there is the best of breed security technology added for each technical problem to solve. That way we can ensure that we did everything we could to protect the business – right? Well I do not completely think.
I read this . . . → Read More: How much security do you need?
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
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By Roger Halbheer, on August 14th, 2012% As you know, I rarely blog about Security Advisories or updates but this time, I want to make sure that you saw that: We released the Microsoft Security Advisory (2661254) – Update For Minimum Certificate Key Length to make you aware of the fact that we will restrict usage of all certificates with RSA keys . . . → Read More: Security Advisory – Update For Minimum Certificate Key Length
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 September 9th, 2011% We have seen some of the attacks recently, where people started to attack either the locks or the technology/software in the car itself controlling the chassis etc.
On DarkReading I was just reading this article: Car Systems Reminiscent of Early PCs
One of the things I do not get with cars is the way they . . . → Read More: Security of Car Software
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
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