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 through Collaboration By Roger Halbheer, on August 6th, 2008 If you ever heard me keynote an event you know that one of the key messages I have is, that partnerships are necessary in order to be able to protect against today’s threats.
At Black Hat USA we just announced a new program called Microsoft Active Protections Program. The program is designed to give security vendors advance notification of our security bulletin release. This will help our partners to be able to protect our joint customers against the vulnerabilities we are fixing. The reason why we decided to launch this program is that exploits are developed much faster than they were in the past and security vendors have to act very fast – so let’s give them some additional time and try to get ahead of the curve.
The key question will definitely be, who is eligible to join this program. The fact sheet gives you the answer:
- Members must offer commercial protection features to Microsoft customers against network- or host-based attacks.
- Members must provide protection features to a large number of customers.
- Members may not sell attack-oriented tools.
- Protection features provided by members must detect, deter or defer attacks.
Roger
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- Announcing the Exploitability Index
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