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Keep all your software updated and current

I know that I keep going and going on that. When I talk to customers and mainly to providers of the critical infrastructure about security, one of the key things to me is to keep the software updated. It is about patching and it is about staying on the latest version of your software. To…

April 13, 2012Leave a commentIncidents, Industry, Open Source, TrendsBy Roger Halbheer

Moving from Linux to Windows

I know, that’s the second time now I am doing this comparison thingy and I promise that I will stop again and deliver you a cool tool as the next post but I read this article: Why I’ve finally had it with my Linux server and I’m moving back to Windows – be sure that…

October 21, 20111 CommentIndustry, Microsoft, Open Source, ProductsBy Roger Halbheer

Is Remote-Application-Removal Acceptable?

I just read this article on Google pulling 50 applications from their Android marketplace (Google uses remote delete to remove Android apps from smartphones – Update). A very good decision as these apps leverage an exploit to access user data. However, what made me think is that they removed the applications from the devices. This…

March 2, 2011Leave a commentIndustry, Open Source, Process, Security, Technology, TrendsBy Roger Halbheer

I sold my soul to Google, can I get it back?

Well, this question was not asked by me but by a guy called Joe Wilcox on Betanews: I sold my soul to Google, can I get it back?. He raises a few points I never really thought of: While the organizations all charge something, not one puts content behind a true paywall. To do so…

December 13, 2010Leave a commentIndustry, Open Source, TrendsBy Roger Halbheer

Support and OpenSource

I know that I am not an OpenSource expert and to be completely clear: I do not want to complain at all but I would definitely think whether I would bet my company’s business processes on it… Let me give you my story

September 28, 20101 CommentIndustry, Open SourceBy Roger Halbheer

The Importance of Application Security

I think I told the story thousands of time and everybody knows it but I will do it the 1001st time now . When I joined Microsoft and became what is the Chief Security Advisor for Switzerland today, we had an airlift for Windows Server 2003. The Product Manager in Switzerland asked me to keynote…

August 24, 2010Leave a commentAssociations, Industry, Microsoft, Open Source, Process, Security, Technology, TrendsBy Roger Halbheer

Open Source and Hackers

The debate is probably as old as the Open Source software development model: Which one is more secure: Open Source or shared source as we at Microsoft run it? I know that we could now enter a religious debate about that, which I do not want to as I do not really believe in the…

June 9, 2010Leave a commentCrime, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Cybercrime, Industry, Microsoft, Open Source, Process, Processes, SecurityBy Roger Halbheer

SharePoint External Collaboration Toolkit moved to Codeplex

Quite a while ago I blogged about the SharePoint External Collaboration Toolkit. I just wanted to make you aware that this toolkit is now moved to Codeplex and can be found here: http://cks.codeplex.com/

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October 14, 2009Leave a commentOpen Source, ProductsBy Roger Halbheer

Mozilla Patches Fastest. NOT!

I only believe the statistics I forged myself So, once more, there is a debate on which browser is the most secure, who fixed which vulnerabilities how fast. The Secunia Report 2008 was just published and it seems that this injects once more the fire about browser security. Out Jeff Jones just posted at CIO.com…

March 9, 2009Leave a commentOpen Source, Technology, TrendsBy Roger Halbheer

Bug Hidden for more than 25 Years

Wow, this was impressive: A Swiss Developer posted on Saturday a blog that he found a bug which remained hidden for more than 25 years: When seekdir() Won’t Seek to the Right Position. BTW: It is in BSD, where the code is available to everyone and as I am told on most of the panels…

May 20, 2008Leave a commentIncidents, Open SourceBy Roger Halbheer

The Debate on Security Metrics

Recently I was sitting on a panel which was pretty heterogeneous: There was a representative from IBM (actually from former ISS), customers, a representative from the Open Source community (who actually, during his presentation always said how bad our security is) – well, and me. In order to have some fun, the moderator wanted to…

May 20, 2008Leave a commentIndustry, Open Source, Policy, Process, Security, TrendsBy Roger Halbheer
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