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 April 19th, 2010% I am one of the grounded people. Luckily for me, I would have had to fly out today and am now “stuck” at home. It is not so fortunate for the event organizer which has a significant amount of sessions he has to do on LiveMeeting now. On the other hand, maybe that this is . . . → Read More: What we can learn for the volcanic cloud for information security
By Roger Halbheer, on April 9th, 2010% I recently blogged about the Beta version of our Security Compliance Manger, helping you to manage the security baselines in your organization. There are some screenshots in the corresponding post: Making the Management of Security Compliance Easier!
Now, we released the final version of it. It can be found here: Microsoft Security Compliance Manager
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. . . → Read More: Microsoft Security Compliance Manager: Now available!
By Roger Halbheer, on March 24th, 2010% And the second day starts. I just met with Jeremy Kirk from IDG and it is great to see that the press is actually interested in such a conference as well.
The day today started with a long session on different initiatives against cybercrime. A lot of good information:
Interpol offers quite some good . . . → Read More: Council of Europe – Octopus Conference (Cooperation against Cybercrime) Day 2
By Roger Halbheer, on March 20th, 2010% On February 24th we announced the work we did on taking down Waledac – read Tim Cranton’s blog post called Cracking Down on Botnets.
Now it is time to look back and try to understand what we learned so far. sudosecure traces the Waledac infections and give a good view of new infections by the . . . → Read More: Results of Operation b49 (Botnet Takedown)
By Roger Halbheer, on March 12th, 2010% There is a project called the web hacking incident database (WHID), which collects data and statistics on web-application related security incidents. I was just looking into their report called The Web Hacking Incident Database 2009 which has some pretty interesting statistics in.
In order to judge the results and statistics of this database, we have . . . → Read More: Hacking Incidents 2009 – Interesting Data
By Roger Halbheer, on March 9th, 2010% To start with: I am an engineer not a lawyer – and this might be part of the problem…
When I started to think about the Cloud and security and thought about all the work I do with Law Enforcement and the challenges they face. Additionally, I started to think about the legal challenges we . . . → Read More: Legal Challenges of International Business and the Cloud
By Roger Halbheer, on March 8th, 2010% I often talk about how we learned to engineer security into the products and the results prove that we are on the right track. One of the challenges we always have is how to help the ecosystem to improve as well. One of the ways is to communicate through our website. Not, that this is . . . → Read More: Security Development Lifecycle – Website!
By Roger Halbheer, on December 1st, 2009% You know that I am a big fan of Security Development Lifecycles as we run it internally to build code which is more resilient against attacks. And I recently blogged on Security – A Feature Discussion? Some Thoughts on Google’s Chrome OS as I am convinced that it is much more important to look into . . . → Read More: Questions to Ask your (Security) Vendor
By Roger Halbheer, on November 26th, 2009% It is not a new concept: The secure way is only secure if it is the easiest way. I have seen a lot of solutions which are extremely secure – in the eyes of the security people. However, the users find a lot of ways to circumvent the security measures because they are too complex . . . → Read More: Security and Usability
By Roger Halbheer, on October 14th, 2009% Beginning of this year, I tried to understand, whether we can show a collaboration between Piracy (stolen software) and Malware Infections. I played a little bit with the data I had available and came to the conclusion, that there most probably is: Is there a Correlation between Stolen Software (Piracy) and Security/Patching?
Now, the Business . . . → Read More: Software Piracy – A Threat to Security!
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