Roger Halbheer on Security
I read an article on Cyber Security Challenge Brings Out the Best about a “defend your system†challenge by the USENIX Security Conference in Montreal, Canada. I like the approach: Find and fix common vulnerabilities on a web server.
Roger
I recently had different discussions with different customers and we were looking into the key questions to ask, when you plan to move to the cloud (yes, I am working on a corresponding blog post). I was then asked whether we have an answer to these questions – well no. For sure not for all…
I started to read the article and actually just wanted to Tweet about it but then I voted and had to publish at least the current state: When it comes to security, who do you trust more? Microsoft (44%) Google (32%) Neither (22%) Both (3%) Total Votes: 716 This is just now – might change…
Well, the question is not too provocative. The longer I look into the risk, the more I am asking this question. Now, we have to separate the different company sizes. I guess for a small and medium business – with the correct safety measures – it makes a lot of sense and you could safe…
I recently asked in a panel, where the difference is between Cloud Computing and classical outsourcing – I kind of became unpopular because this is simply uncool… But I stick with it (knowing there are differences) but the difference is not that big in my opinion. So, reading this article IT outsourcing most affected by…
I am running a whole environment at home to experience our technology. However, up to now it was all “on premiseâ€, no Cloud integration. This has to change. Therefore I was more than happy to join our internal Hosted Exchange 14 beta program. We are offering the hosted Exchange program to Live@Edu – but we…
I just found that this morning. If you have 15 minutes, you have to watch these videos. They are really fun (are they?):
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Enjoy! I did (partly)
Roger
I often mention that we try to give you all the tools we have as long as it makes sense form a risk perspective. The risk perspective is a simple one: If we give it to you as our customer, we give it as well to the criminals. There are two new tools which just…
This morning I stumbled across a guide by the US Health & Human Services with regards to H1N1. Even though it did not catch much news lately I am not sure whether it is really over. Staying prepared it definitely not a bad thing. Even though it is US-centric, you should probably look into it:…
I am using a Latin keyboard and my Arabic is kind of “rusty†but I guess that this could be of real help if you write Arabic:
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There is a good video on that page.
Roger
I recently blogged on how I monitor my environment: Monitoring – a Key Activity to a Trustworthy Infrastructure? In the meantime, I am doing more. I was just recently looking into System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). So, I installed it on my monitoring server and started to manage my virtual hosts centrally. Basically VMM…
Well, it was one of these days. In order to make photos available to our family we used SharePoint since quite a while. It did a fairly decent job but I wanted more fancy stuff. So I started to look for something in Silverlight as Silverlight is our web platform. I really found something on…
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. The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) provides an in-depth perspective on the changing threat landscape including software…
When I talk about the big trends, one of them is about the call of the younger generation for more flexibility. Flexibility in this context is about where you work, when you work and how you organize yourself. If you take this as a given, you have to wonder whether today’s IT is able to…
Hmm, think about it, when you write the next version of your policy:
Roger
Well, the title is not completely from me – I just quoted another blog post. I wrote recently on Why Windows 7 XP Mode makes sense from a security perspective and was even quoted on the register. The “funny†thing was the history of that blog: I was readying some Tweets and blogs where XP…
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. Returning to the theme of deploying security updates once more, we need to look at the potential…
This is a pretty interesting survey: Future of the Internet III: How the Experts See It Here are the key findings: The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the internet for most people in the world in 2020. The transparency of people and organizations will increase, but that will not necessarily yield…
Henk van Roest, our EMEA Security Program Manager is running a pretty successful internal blog. Before summer vacation he started a series called “Why it pays to be secure†which I think has some great information in it. I asked him then to go public with it but he told me that he is not…
NSSLabs just recently published a study on browser security with regards to Phising and Malware protection, which we comissioned. To take it upfront: The whole methodology is transperent and therefore rather than challenging the results, let’s learn from them how we can improve. As I do not want to take the joy away for you…
