Consumerization of IT–How to address this
Bring Your Own Device or Consumerization of IT are fairly hot themes in a lot of customer organizations. When I talk to customers, there are typically different reactions, once we bring this up. Some tell us, that it is not part of their strategy; some tell us that they plan to do it but that they have a hard time figuring out, how to secure such an environment; very, very ...
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 ...
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 . . . → Read More: Security through Collaboration
By Roger Halbheer, on August 6th, 2008% At Blackhat we announced an important change to our Security Bulletins becoming effective during the October release.
One of the requests we often heard talking to our customers is, that they would like to get better information on how hard it is to exploit a vulnerability. We will introduce an Exploitability Index by October. . . . → Read More: Announcing the Exploitability Index
By Roger Halbheer, on August 5th, 2008% Yes, I am back. I was on vacation and therefore did not take the time to blog.
Just briefly: IBM published a pretty good article on the latest DNS attacks. You can read it here: Responding to the DNS vulnerability and attacks
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By Roger Halbheer, on August 5th, 2008% It is not really news anymore as it broke during my vacation. However, it is important from my point of view:
We are a proud sponsor (and not for the first time) of the Privacy Enhancing Technology Awards, which recognizes the work of researchers in the area of Privacy Enhancing Technologies. There was a . . . → Read More: Microsoft sponsors Privacy Enhancing Technology Awards
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