Roger Halbheer on Security
Just a quick one. I was aware that a few data points in an anonymized data set can already be enough to identify a single person. However, what you can get out of Facebook is amazing. If you do not know it yet, go to https://applymagicsauce.com/ and apply the magic to your Facebook profile. Just…
Startups in the Fintech and Cyber area have the potential to really disrupt the business and the way we do security. Therefore, we decided to support the Fintech & Cyber Showcase 2016 – Israel Innovation Effect intensively and out came a great event with interesting startups in these sector. So, if you are interested and…
I guess we all agree on certain challenges in the future: Our businesses as well as our IT will become more and more digital and therefore security will need to change. The pace of a compliance-based approach will simply be too slow to come up with reasonable solutions in a light of new, dynamic and…
Australia has proven to be very creative in the past when it comes to cybersecurity and measures against it. Yet again, they published a fairly good video on security awareness. The only drawback: I you are not Australian – it is not THAT easy to understand J Roger Related articles Australian cybersecurity video plays dumb…
If you look at the press and the discussions on the web a lot of people complain about the use of their data by service providers. Personally, I am convinced that certain companies stretch their interpretation of privacy further than they should because they can afford it based of the position they have in the…
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…
Years ago information security or cybersecurity was in the hands of specialists, which set the rules and the users had to follow – in theory. Whether the users really followed the rules, policies and recommendations is a different story but it worked that way. I rarely remember a CIO/CFO or CEO really being interested in…
This is actually a great speech but very, very, very scary:
and the scariest part is that I never looked at it that way but he is right
Roger
It is kind of strange: I worked with some kids on Tuesday on online safety challenges and mainly we talked about Facebook, Netlog, Twitter etc. We had a lot of very good discussions with them about how to protect your privacy Tonight we will talk to the parent’s of these kids and do our best…
Well, basically this title attracted my attention: How to Do an Online Background Check for Free. I had to try it with myself. So I started, following the sites and suggestions in the article: I clicked on the first link and landed on 9 Sites That Find People and Their ‘Sensitive’ Information – cool. Let’s…
Blocking social media in companies seems to be fairly common; however I personally do not like it for different reasons. I would like you to open a debate and educate me. Tell me, why it is good or bad. Tell me, which risks you are looking at, when/if you do it.
Sometimes I feel that people think the Internet is a room, where the laws of our society do not apply anymore… I read an article this morning on Swiss news called Drei Monate Haft für Beleidigungen auf Facebook – and here is an English version of it: Jail for French Facebook user. Sometimes I wonder…
Actually I had a few very interesting discussions lately as a reaction on my post Is There Any Value in Twitter? Yes? Think Again… and I think Thibaud brought it to the point: Mass-follow is the “problem†– in other words me . I had thought about getting out of Twitter but I will get…
I am tweeting since quite a while but the click-through rate is below 0.1%. Why is this the case? Is there actually any value of Twitter or is it just a system, which is taking care of it itseld?
Recently, we had an interesting discussion on Social Media. It actually all started with somebody sending a link around called http://pleaserobme.com/ to see who actually just said that they are not at home – information which can easily be gained through Twitter search.
This is an interesting information: FTC Takes Action Against Employee Bloggers. I am often asked about the rules and guidelines we have internally for bloggers. One is to be transparent. Whenever I blog, tweet or comment on a blog, I am always transparent that I am working for Microsoft – at least when I do…
I really love reading Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog. Fairly often it is thought provoking… He recently wrote about his experience with the new iPhone privacy policy: Apple giving out your iPhone fingerprints and location. He was one (probably of the very few) reading the privacy policy and found the following statement: Collection and Use of…
Steve Ballmer was once asked by a journalist whether and why he allows blogging by Microsoft employees, without any approval process. His answer was that he lets Microsoft employees talk to customers without approval process as well (at least that’s the story which was told ). You know that I am a big fan of…
I blogged often about it: Blocking certain websites today can fire back in different ways. The CIO published an article called Workarounds: 5 Ways Employees Try to Access Restricted Sites – and they say: “Some workarounds can be dangerous because they might create a channel that data can flow out through that is not managed…
You know that I am not a big fan of blocking social networks within enterprises for different reasons. I just read an article on this subject based on a study by Trend Micro. One of the conclusions in the article is: Trying to just prevent users accessing social networks from work could potentially increase the…
