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10 Years of Trustworthy Computing at MicrosoftBefore 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 XPI 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 SecurityA 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 headlineA 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 ... 
I wrote about it as we released the Beta. Now, the Solution Accelerator for Security Compliance Management is live and available. It is definitely worth looking at it: Security Compliance Management. Just to quote from the webpage: In today’s IT environment, the ability to comply with regulations and industry standards, such as the . . . → Read More: Security Compliance Management – Solution Accelerator Available I was reading through a paper ISF wrote on the security implications of a Service Oriented Architecture and was thinking about whether this is really that difference from the “non-Service-Oriented-Architecture”. Let’s have a brief look at that: What is SOA? I do not want to elaborate on this as I guess . . . → Read More: Service Oriented Architecture and the Security Implications Fresh out of press (ok, it is out since beginning of April but I just saw it now): Brian Komar, the well-known author of several PKI books on Windows Server just released a new book called Windows Server 2008 PKI and Certificate Security. If you are planning a Windows Server 2008 PKI, this is a . . . → Read More: Windows Server 2008 PKI and Certificate Security I was made aware of a pretty good report on Software as a Service Quocirca did in collaboration with Microsoft. It is not the kind of “new, what you never heard before”-thing but I personally think that it is a good investment of time to get an overview of Software as a Service and some . . . → Read More: On-Premise vs. On-Demand (or SaaS) – A Quocirca Report In the world of Chinese Hackers there seems to be a group especially for female hackers. I just read this post: Chinese Female Hacker Group which show a pretty high growth rate of women joining: The website for the China Girl Security Team was registered on 12 Mar 2007 and currently has 2,217 members. . . . → Read More: The Emancipation of Hackers I guess you read it as it was pretty wide-spread in the press in the last few days: On the Insecurity of Microsoft’s Identity Metasystem CardSpace. Well, is there any official Microsoft reaction to it? No, not yet and if you look a little bit more in depth into it, I doubt that there . . . → Read More: The “successful” attack on Cardspace |
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