Roger Halbheer on Security
If you do not know this blog, it is definitely worth looking at it from time to time: Paleo-Future. There I found a prediction on cybercrime dated 1981: It describes the impact of computers in the “future†– say today. If you click on the picture, you can see the original. There is a good…
DetailsThis month it is pretty important to read the Security Research and Defense blog post: Assessing the risk of the August security updates
It might help you to get an overview on the biggest release ever
Roger
I just read this article E-crime unit arrests suspected phishing gang, which shows that we are making progress in fighting cybercrime. Very good news
Roger
You know my opinion on collaboration between countries, on public-private-partnerships as well as on collaboration between companies. Since quite a while we run a program called MAPP – the Microsoft Active Protections Program, where we share vulnerability information with security vendors to help them to get signatures out to our joint customers the moment we…
DetailsThis is always a fairly emotional theme. What is better to protect the ecosystem? Public or private disclosure? Should somebody paying for vulnerabilities or not? Is a vulnerability auction ethical or not? I know that there are numerous views on that and I do not want to debate them here and now. What I just…
DetailsAfter my overall announcement that we grow the community in Off to See the World, and Stuart Aston joining as the CSA in the UK, it is a great pleasure to see Magnus Lindkvist coming back. Magnus was the CSA in Sweden a few years back and accepted the offer now to come back and…
DetailsAs you have seen in my post Off to see the World, we are hiring Chief Security Advisors all over the place. The first one was announced last week: Stuart Aston was announced to take over the Chief Security Advisor in the UK.
Have a good start!
Roger
And everybody tells me how secure they are….. So,according to this article Secunia: Apple makes the most vulnerable software in the market today, apple hast most vulns, then Oracle and then us (and then the rest). And you know, the interesting thing is that the comparison is not “apples with apples†as we tend to…
DetailsEven though it might be obvious, compliance is not only about protecting data but identities as well – and more. Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics, whom I value high, wrote a good article: Doing the right thing on ID management isn’t enough… – you should read it!
Roger
The Department of Homeland Security published a report on A Roadmap for Cybersecurity Research, I was definitely impressed! All the themes, which are important to me are in their list : Scalable trustworthy systems (including system architectures and requisite development methodology) Enterprise-level metrics (including measures of overall system trustworthiness) System evaluation life cycle (including approaches…
DetailsYou 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…
DetailsI just wanted to remind you: The support for Windows XP SP2 ends today. I hope that this does not catch you by surprise. If you need all the information about which kind of support ends when for which product, please consult out Lifecycle page. If you have a Premier Support contract with us, your…
DetailsIf you follow my blog you saw recently that there are two themes constantly popping up: One is everything about a government’s Cybersecurity Agenda (or the lack thereof) and the second one is the Cloud. Let me briefly line them out: When I talk to governments I often feel that there is a lack of…
DetailsI recently migrated to WordPress 3.0 – it is great and the upgrade was absolutely smooth.
Afterwards, I was looking into the latest plugins and decided to open a guestbook. So, please sign in and make me feel good 
Roger
July 1st, Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President Trustworthy Computing was testifying at a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Basically the hearing was on the benefits and risk of Cloud adoption for the US government. If you are interested in reading his full testimony, you will find it here. Additionally, Scott…
DetailsIf you have not seen these numbers, they are very impressive: Microsoft by the numbers. One of the most impressive figure in there is that we sold 150,000,000 Windows 7 licenses since the launch. Well, this figure by itself does not really impress you, no? It is just big I guess. Well there is another…
DetailsI blogged about the vulnerability which was publically disclosed by a researcher working for Google earlier this month. In the meantime the attacks started to increase. I think that it would be important for you to look at what is going on. There is a good blog post by our malware protection center: Attacks on…
DetailsYou know that we have Tablet PCs since Windows XP and I think I did not have many PCs at Microsoft which were not tablets. How often do I use them as a tablet? Not too often but when I am in a customer meeting and do not use my notebook to present, I use…
DetailsWell, it is not me saying that, it is actually Clint Boulton, eWeek. He published an article on 10 Reasons Why Google Won’t Beat Microsoft in Cloud Collaboration and they are: Microsoft Is Big, Getting Bigger Local Still Preferable? Microsoft Now Lives in the Cloud Bang for the Buck Lies with Microsoft Serena Said It…
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