Roger Halbheer on Security
I often see a lot of discussions on Information Warfare. Today I just stumbled across a paper published by RAND called Strategic Information Warfare – A New Face of War – from my first impression definitely worth reading
Roger
I often get asked about Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, how it works and what role we can play to prevent them. So, let me start with the first part of it: Our Security Intelligence Report version 5 talked about the underground economy and actually explained what is happening before a DDoS takes place.…
I guess you know my view to protection of USB-ports. I get often asked how you can protect your user’s from using USB-sticks. There are ways – especially in Vista – but don’t do it. Your users most probably have a good business reason, why they would want to use USB-sticks and by not letting…
At the Analyst Event last week I was asked more than once about the File Classification Infrastructure. As it was something I never looked into the details, I started from the blog post I wrote mid May File Classification Infrastructure in Windows Server 2008 R2 and just wanted to collect some information about it. If…
I often have the opportunity to keynote events on security. I rarely want to talk about products but much more about the way I see the development around security on the Internet. The reason why I do this presentation the way you see below is, that threats change and criminals evolved (and will still evolve)…
We are just kicking off the EMEA TwC Analyst Summit, which is running for the next two days. The first time we are using technologies like Twitter live from the event and we encourage the Analysts to do the same. Therefore, you might follow what is going on there on different channels but mainly: The…
I am running Microsoft Security Essentials (called “Morroâ€) since quite a while on my Mediacenter and I am definitely convinced of it. So, go ahead and test it: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/resources.aspx – it will be our free Anti-Malware solution
Roger
Wednesday and Thursday we are running an event for selected analysts in London. As you might know, I am tweeting via http://www.twitter.com/rhalbheer and I will try to do some live tweeting from the event during the event – never did this but I will try. In addition, there are some analysts we know that they…
This is probably one of the best news I read since a long time. I often said, that I am convinced that we are in a lot of areas around security leading the industry. The complexity of building multi-purpose software in a secure way started to be addressed by us back when we introduced the…
One more proof that we listen to you: We made certain changes to Bing in order rot help you to protect from sexual explicit content. Please read the corresponding blog post Safe Search Update. Even though this is very good news, it does not change my view that education of parents and children is at…
We started a program called “Browser for the Better†where we donate 8 meals to Feeding America per download of Internet Explorer 8 (until August 8th).
So, go out and download Internet Explorer 8 from the site above
Roger
A few years ago, we ran a huge event in Switzerland: We offered people in Switzerland to come to us (we were for a whole week at the airport in Zurich) with their PC and we check it for malware, patch it etc. We did this with a lot of partners and had live TV…
I got some questions on my blog post that you should not by a Wii at the moment. The key question was about whether this is just a teaser. Well, look at the demos they did at E3. You find them here:
Roger
You might have seen recent posts on Bing getting under attack because of the video preview feature, which works (obviously) for “normal†videos as well as for porn… To be clear upfront: I am the daddy of two great sons at the age of 7 and 10, so at least the 10-year-old starts to get…
I have to admit: Not really security related but really, really, really cool. Look at this Xbox trailer: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09-project-natal/50017?type=wmv
Roger
You heard it: We went live with our new search engine called Bing on bing.com as we are convinced that you should not search – but find!
You should have a look at it especially as we got some outstanding third-party feedback.
Roger
A lot of people and companies are talking about “the Cloud†today. I guess that there are not too many companies that share the same track record of running online services as Microsoft. 1994 we launched MSN and since then we are in this business. Microsoft Global Foundation Services (the group responsible for this infrastructure)…
You might know that we have something we call the Microsoft IT Showcase, where our internal IT shows how they use our technology to run our environment. Now, we just published a new article, which might be interesting for you to read called Using DirectAccess to Provide Secure Access to Corporate Resources from Anywhere. I…
As you might have read, I recently blogged about my infrastructure and the future of a platform towards a better management of compliance – honestly, I actually played with our latest technology . I wrote about Deploying PKI Time Sync on Virtual DCs Now, a necessary and very important next step towards compliance as well…
You might remember it: January 15th, 2002 Bill Gates wrote the famous memo on Trustworthy Computing to all the employees at Microsoft. This was probably one of the biggest initiatives at Microsoft and radically changed the way we develop software (and much, much more). I remember when I was the first time on stage talking…
