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 February 17th, 2011% Microsoft Malware Protection Center published a document on Battling the Zbot Threat, a special edition of the Security Intelligence Report. It is a very good document, worth looking at.
This is the intro (to make you curious for more):
This document provides an overview of the Win32/Zbot family of password-stealing trojans. The document examines the . . . → Read More: Fighting a Botnet
By Roger Halbheer, on October 12th, 2010% Stuxnet is a severe threat – that’s something we know for sure. But if we look at it – what do we really know? What can we learn?
Let’s start from the beginning. As soon as Stuxnet hit the news, it was interesting to see, what was happening. There was a ton of speculation out . . . → Read More: Stuxnet talks – do we listen?
By Roger Halbheer, on September 30th, 2010% I read an article called that way but then had to realize that it did not really address, what I expected. Why? Well, because it does not cover the key challenge in my opinion but… . . . → Read More: How to Detect a Hacker Attack
By Roger Halbheer, on September 19th, 2010% We are basically asking the industry to follow a Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure and are therefore not in favor of public vulnerability disclosure as it puts the industry unnecessarily at risk.
Recently there was a vulnerability in ASP.NET publically disclosed. We released an advisory and you should look into implementing the suggested workaround: Vulnerability in ASP.NET . . . → Read More: Advisory for the ASP.NET Vulnerability
By Roger Halbheer, on July 27th, 2010% This is always a fairly emotional theme. What is better to protect the ecosystem? Public or private disclosure? Should somebody paying for vulnerabilities or not? Is a vulnerability auction ethical or not?
I know that there are numerous views on that and I do not want to debate them here and now. What I just . . . → Read More: How to Deal With Vulnerabilities
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