10 Years of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft
Before joining Microsoft a little bit more than 10 years ago, I ran a team at PricewarehoureCoopers on e-Business Risk Management – classical security consulting in the Internet bubble time. When I announced that I will leave PwC and join Microsoft, I got interesting reactions (and remember, this was 2001). Mainly they were along two lines: Oh, you are joining a desktop company? ...
10 Reasons to migrate off Windows XP
I would like you to sit back, close your eyes and think about the year 2001. Think about how you used technology back then, how you used the Internet. Now, let’s take it a little bit further back in history and think of the year 2000. Just after we realized that the Year-2000-Problem was handled very well by the industry. How you used technology, how you used the Internet, the ...
Office 365 Becomes First and Only Major Cloud Productivity Service to Comply With Leading EU and U.S. Standards for Data Protection and Security
A long title but this was the title of the official press statement yesterday. Compliance is always a key question in the public cloud space. Therefore it is very important for us that we now achieved three things: Office 365 is compliant with EU Model Clauses, Data Processing Agreements and ISO 27001 among other standards. Office 365 is the first and only major ...
Cybersecurity–More than a good headline
A lot of governments all across the globe are working on starting, restarting or pushing their Cybersecurity initiative. What often concerns me is, that the last real headline has more impact on the strategy and the themes to be addressed than a structure or a plan or a strategy.
This made us thinking about what is needed to run a successful Cybersecurity Agenda within a country? What themes ought to be ...
Security Pros ignoring their own message By Roger Halbheer, on May 20th, 2008 As you probably know: I am Swiss. We have a saying in Switzerland (I do not know whether something like this exists in English as well) that the kids of the shoemaker always have the worst shoes… So, what about the security professionals? No, I am not talking about their shoes but what about the way they handle security?
It seems that during Infosec (the information security exhibition in London) there were quite some notebook just lying around and – even worse – unlocked. Now, we ask the users to take care but we do not even do the basics right? I once said a few years ago that whenever I find an unlocked notebook in the office, I would add myself as a local admin (as most of us are admin on the box, this is a fairly easy task if the machine is not locked). Now, after doing that I waited for the next time we had a meeting together. It is Microsoft attitude that you take your notebook to the meetings (and some do e-mails during the meetings L). I then remotely rebooted their notebook… I can tell you, the look they had on their face during that was really worth it.
If you want to read the whole story on Infosec: Infosec: Security pros ‘ignoring’ their own message
Roger
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