When Goog becomes your Roommate (a "must see")
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
Microsoft SDL Team Releases New Security Testing Tools
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…
H1N1 (Swine) Flu Preparedness – Guide for Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources
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:…
Typing Arabic without a Arabic Keyboard: Microsoft Maren
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:
Microsoft Maren
There is a good video on that page.
Roger
Monitoring the Virtual Environment
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…
PHP on Windows Server 2008 – My New Photo Gallery
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…
Why it pays to be secure – Chapter 2 – Vulnerabilities
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…
Is the "Managed Desktop" the ultimate solution?
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…
Security Policies – Confidentiality
Hmm, think about it, when you write the next version of your policy:
Roger
Windows 7 XP Mode – Sophos error: facts not found
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…
Why it pays to be secure – Chapter 1 – Data Breaches
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…
The Future of the Internet in 2020
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…
Why it pays to be secure – Introduction
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…
Internet Explorer 8 best to protect customer
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…
Legal Risks of the Cloud
I just stumbled across an interesting blog post named Legal Implications of Cloud Computing. I am not a lawyer and therefore unable to judge the details but overall it gives a good view of the risks and challenges.
Roger
Why Windows 7 XP Mode makes sense from a security perspective
I have to admit: When I first learned about Windows 7 XP Mode I was quite surprised. How can we actually ship an XP Virtual Machine with Windows 7? Well, then I started to think (no, it did not hurt too much )… But before I share my findings with you, let me tell you…
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Role EAL 4+ certified by BSI
That’s new: We have Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Common Criteria EAL 4+ certified. The new thing is that we certified it in Germany by the BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik). You can find the report here: https://www.bsi.bund.de/cae/servlet/contentblob/612768/publicationFile/35487/0570a_pdf.pdf
Roger
Onion News: The Future of Privacy – the Google Opt-Out Village
Not really serious – just fun (or isn’t it??):
Roger
The Microsoft Security Update Guide
I know that these news are not new but I was away when we announced it and to me it is important enough to take it up afterwards. Over the last few months we worked on a document explaining everything which is going on around an Update Tuesday. So, what is an Advanced Notification, what…
Blaster's Birthday
I guess you remember the day back in 2003: I was actually on vacation when I was called in back to the Microsoft offices as we had some strange things going on… It was the day of the Blaster breakout. The first time I personally had to deal with a very severe incident here at…