Success against Cybercrime
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
Microsoft and Adobe: Collaboration Against Threats
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…
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This 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…
DetailsChief Security Advisor in Sweden: Magnus is back
After 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…
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As 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
Secunia: Apple makes the most vulnerable software in the market today
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…
DetailsDoing the right thing on ID management isn't enough…
Even 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
US Cybersecurity Research!
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…
DetailsBlocking Social Networks? Think Again…
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…
DetailsSupport for Windows XP SP2 ends today!
I 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…
DetailsOff to See the World
If 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…
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I 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
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…
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