Roger Halbheer on Security
At the moment I invest a lot of my time in a Whitepaper on Client and Cloud Security. There are a few fundamentals, which are already clear to me: You will not be able to run a trusted cloud ecosystem without a trusted client and trusted interactions. So, the End to End Trust model is…
DetailsThis morning I read the following article: Microsoft can help kill fake antivirus threat. And interesting approach. The proposal is that we could white-list all the legitimate security software within the OS in order to make it harder to trick the user. Well, would this work? I am not so sure: First of all, what…
DetailsOur EMEA Security Program Manager, Henk van Roest, started this series internally and with his consent I am publishing it here in my blog as I think it contains a lot of great information for you to use. Security — you hear about it every day. Being responsible for information security can be a daunting…
DetailsCOFEE is a tool available to Law Enforcement only to capture online evidence with a little training as possible. The idea behind the tool is, that there is little need for high-trained staff to be available during e.g. house searches and that a normal, much less trained officer can capture all the data. Until today,…
DetailsBeginning of this year, I tried to understand, whether we can show a collaboration between Piracy (stolen software) and Malware Infections. I played a little bit with the data I had available and came to the conclusion, that there most probably is: Is there a Correlation between Stolen Software (Piracy) and Security/Patching? Now, the Business…
DetailsQuite 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/
Roger
The development in Africa especially with the new broadband services to me is a huge chance for the whole continent. I just found this map on the next two years: source: IntelFusion Even though I have not been in Africa over the last few months, I heard that in different cities fiber is brought directly…
DetailsOn analyst (and very active Tweeter on http://twitter.com/monkchips) quite a while ago (March 08) published a post, which we recently drew up in one of the cloud discussions: If you peel back the label and its says “Grid†or “OGSA†underneath… its not a cloud. If you need to send a 40 page requirements document…
DetailsWhen I entered the US this time, I got a brochure on how I could avoid the line at immigration and just get a fast track by registering with the Global Entry Program, a program, which would pre-screen me and then I just have to register with a machine by entering the US. As I…
DetailsWhy pay for a Anti-Malware solution if you can get one of the best solutions in the world for free – go and download it! It is there: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ And now, the disclaimer: It runs only on genuine Windows! Have fun, enjoy. I am running it since quite a while with my friends and families…
DetailsI read an article on Cyber Security Challenge Brings Out the Best about a “defend your system†challenge by the USENIX Security Conference in Montreal, Canada. I like the approach: Find and fix common vulnerabilities on a web server.
Roger
I recently had different discussions with different customers and we were looking into the key questions to ask, when you plan to move to the cloud (yes, I am working on a corresponding blog post). I was then asked whether we have an answer to these questions – well no. For sure not for all…
DetailsI started to read the article and actually just wanted to Tweet about it but then I voted and had to publish at least the current state: When it comes to security, who do you trust more? Microsoft (44%) Google (32%) Neither (22%) Both (3%) Total Votes: 716 This is just now – might change…
DetailsWell, the question is not too provocative. The longer I look into the risk, the more I am asking this question. Now, we have to separate the different company sizes. I guess for a small and medium business – with the correct safety measures – it makes a lot of sense and you could safe…
DetailsI recently asked in a panel, where the difference is between Cloud Computing and classical outsourcing – I kind of became unpopular because this is simply uncool… But I stick with it (knowing there are differences) but the difference is not that big in my opinion. So, reading this article IT outsourcing most affected by…
DetailsI am running a whole environment at home to experience our technology. However, up to now it was all “on premiseâ€, no Cloud integration. This has to change. Therefore I was more than happy to join our internal Hosted Exchange 14 beta program. We are offering the hosted Exchange program to Live@Edu – but we…
DetailsI just found that this morning. If you have 15 minutes, you have to watch these videos. They are really fun (are they?):
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Roger
I often mention that we try to give you all the tools we have as long as it makes sense form a risk perspective. The risk perspective is a simple one: If we give it to you as our customer, we give it as well to the criminals. There are two new tools which just…
DetailsThis morning I stumbled across a guide by the US Health & Human Services with regards to H1N1. Even though it did not catch much news lately I am not sure whether it is really over. Staying prepared it definitely not a bad thing. Even though it is US-centric, you should probably look into it:…
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