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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 ... 
As usual (and probably as most of you) I started today scanning through my mails and RSS feeds for important and urgent information. By doing that, I stumbled across an article called Hackers and Nigeria vulnerability to cyber terrorism and I started to read it. As you know, I blogged several times already on . . . → Read More: Hacking is destroying economic growth Honestly, if you are not living in China it might not be that urgent but read yourself: China running out of IP addresses Roger I just read a pretty interesting paper; you should have a look at. The interesting thing is – from my point of view – the paper is close to your End to End Trust paper we published in March. What I want to say with that is, that it seems that several forces in the . . . → Read More: Information Accountability This is pretty remarkable from my point of view: In 2005 our Forensic team together with our Investigators obtained the identification and arrest of M. Jean-Charles S. for the illegal distribution of a hacking tutorial against MSN Hotmail and MSN Messenger users. On June 12, 2008 the Tribunal Correctionnel (criminal court in France) sentenced this . . . → Read More: Suspended Jail for Hacking Tutorial in France You might have seen my recent blogpost on the botnet on eBay. They have seen it (we touched base with them as well)– now it’s gone: Cool!! Roger It is getting better over time: Now you can rent a Botnet on eBay to increase your hitrate on YouTube (By the way: Free shipping is included): |39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A12|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 Roger As you might know, I blogged on e-Voting recently (Why I do not like e-Voting) and got quite some reactions. A few here but most of them privately. Most of you seem to like e-Voting. Now, think again! Look at this article here Evaluating the Security of Electronic Voting Systems. There is a video in . . . → Read More: Why I do not like e-Voting (Part 2) This is the kind of stuff I hate to see – definitely within Microsoft but to a similar extent within competitors. I think we have a joint mission: Make the Internet a safer (and more trustworthy) place. There was quite some noise yesterday around Google Chrome. And a lot of noise about “safer browsing” . . . → Read More: This is about processes: Google Chrome Vulnerable to Carpet Bombing |
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