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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 has nothing to do with security nor with technology – but it is worth (in my opinion) 20 minutes of your time! Recently a friend of mine told me to read Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t by Jim Collins. Well, I said kind of “yeah, yeah” but downloaded . . . → Read More: Run your company like a burrito? As I was on vacation last week, I could not blog on that but still – if you do not have seen that, you should look into this blog post by the Froefront team. I hope it clarifies certain questions you might have: Update on Forefront security management Roger We just opened the Beta for Windows Intune, your new PC management and security solution in the cloud. Here is a screenshot if the web console: So, go and sign up for the Beta: http://www.microsoft.com/online/windows-intune.mspx Roger . . . → Read More: Manage your PCs in the Cloud – Sign up for Windows Intune Beta Our EMEA Security Program Manager, Henk van Roest, started this series internally and with his consent I am publishing it here in my blog as I think it contains a lot of great information for you to use. So far, in the first 4 chapters, we have addressed the usual excuses for not Managing Your . . . → Read More: Why it pays to be secure – Chapter 5 – I need tools! |
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