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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 ... 
When people look at attackers, they always think that they are extremely smart people. There are really smart people building the kits but the ones applying it? Well, you just need the right guidance: Hacker’s Tiny Spy Computer Cracks Corporate Networks, Fits In An Altoid Tin Fairly easy, isn’t it? Roger 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 The longer the more I see articles and posts that claim that security could actually improve if you migrate to the Cloud. And the longer the more I am a firm believer of these statements. It is not about forgetting best practices and just handing over everything to the Cloud provider. It is about adapting your practices to the new reality. . . . → Read More: Quit Worrying About Cloud Security? There are some high-level indsutry trends, which tend to be ignored by security officers. The CIO Central published an article, which I would even go further looking at the trends raised. . . . → Read More: Are You Focused On The Wrong Security Risks? If you evern wondered, what our CISO thinks about security in the Cloud, you should listen to him directly. . . . → Read More: From the Inside: Our CISO on Cloud Security Since quite a while I am not satisfied with the way we (in the industry) are doing risk management. In my early days, before I was actually entering the security space, I was doing project management and as part of it risk management. The way we did it was fairly simple (as probably most of . . . → Read More: Fixing Risk Management 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 As soon as zero-days appear on the Internet, two things happen: Somebody publishes an exploit and somebody else an unoffical patch. How trustworthy are such updates? How should you handle them? It is all about risk management! . . . → Read More: The Risks of Unofficial Patches 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 Roger . . . → Read More: Microsoft Security Compliance Manager: Now available! 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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