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Cloud Computing: Benefits and Risks of Moving Federal IT into the Cloud
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…
DetailsMicrosoft By Numbers
If 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…
DetailsAttacks on the Windows Help and Support Center Vulnerability (CVE-2010-1885)
I 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…
DetailsThe Growth of the Tablet Market
You 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…
DetailsWhy Google Won’t Beat Microsoft on Cloud Collaboration
Well, 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…
DetailsIs a Copy Machine Your Biggest Security Risk?
Probably not. However, it indefinitely is a security risk. We are talking about this since a looooooong time as such copiers are sold since 2002. I just recently heard that the criminals are looking into this heavily and now it is even discussed publically on BCS News: Copy Machines, a Security Risk? Actually a really…
DetailsWhat Teens Do Online
From time to time I do speeches to parents here in the community with regards to online safety for the kids and the teens. Being a parent as well, I have a natural interest in this theme, knowing that I probably have better insights in some of the challenges than most other parents. Therefore I…
DetailsMature your IT and then move to the Cloud
Today, I had the opportunity to talk to a group of partners on Cloud and security. The goal was to make them ready for the Cloud and make them ready to answer the customer’s questions. One block – obviously – was about security and as I look at it (and as I said), this starts…
DetailsRaid against Piracy
There seem to be policy organizations being serious about fighting piracy! Hungary, actually with 41% pirated software “not even that badâ€, seems to be really serious. But before, let me just take those 41% up for a second: This means that 41% of the work you do is stolen. I think a significant negative impact…
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10 of the Top Data Breaches of the Decade
You might have read that I ranted a little bit about the iPad data breach: Who needs a (vulnerable) iPad if you can get an nPad? and some people pushed back – which I can understand. So, to put it into perspective, I read this article this morning on the worst data breaches of the…
DetailsEnd of Support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2
I just want to make you aware the Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2 are going out of support. There are a few good blog post you should look at: End of Support for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista (with no service packs installed) End of support for Windows 2000 and Extended Support phase…
DetailsLies, Damned Lies and the “Gone Google” Calculator
An interesting post (by a Microsoft employee) on the Google cost calculator. An interesting read on the way they compete….
Lies, Damned Lies and the “Gone Google†Calculator
Roger
The Importance of International Collaboration–Even in Exercises
One of the biggest challenges in Critical Infrastructure Protection or Incident Response is collaboration. Collaboration between the public and the private sector as the private sector is most often running the critical infrastructure; collaboration between different governments as well as incidents do not tend to stop at a country’s border. Now, planning for such a…
DetailsNotebook searches at a country border
I guess you still know the discussions a while ago where it was made public that notebooks can be searched without suspicion when you cross the border to the US. Actually the truth is, that this can happen everywhere as far as I understand. To be clear: I am not a lawyer, I am an…
DetailsShould the Government be able to enforce security updates?
This is actually an interesting question. A lot of governments enforce rules and regulations on how you have to run your car, how often you have to check it, in which condition you have to keep your tires etc. The same is true for a lot of other devices we are using. Now, it seems…
DetailsWho needs a (vulnerable) iPad if you can get an nPad?
I actually wanted to show nPad to you as I loved it – it is a new hardware factor to what we did since years on the tablet. I like this new hardware (see below) and then read this article, showing that Apple got hit fairly hard this week by a vulnerability in iPad: Apple’s…
DetailsVulnerability Disclosure to Compete?
As you know (I stress that fairly often :-)), I am Swiss. The reason why I am stressing this today is that I want to give you an example on security from the Swiss market: The banks here on place compete with each other – obviously. However, I have never seen the banks competing on…
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